A mesocosm fish farming experiment and its implications for reducing nutrient load on a regional scale

Aquacultural Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 117-126

  Gyllenhammar, Andreas ^a   Håkanson, Lars ^b   Lehtinen, Karl Johan ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Nordic Environment Finance Corporation   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Dynamic modelling; Fish farming; Fish growth; Herring; Mesocosm; Nitrogen; Nutrient load; Phosphorus; Rainbow trout

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODELS; FISH; GROWTH KINETICS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS;

FISH FARMING; FISH GROWTH; HERRING; MESOCOSM; NUTRIENT LOAD; RAINBOW TROUT;

FISHERIES;

BIOMASS; CAGE CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FISH CULTURE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MASS BALANCE; MESOCOSM; MODEL TEST; MODELING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SALMONID; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CLUPEIDAE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 39749134263     PISSN: 01448609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaeng.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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