Advanced system for sustainable aquaculture plant management

Abstract

Aquaculture is an expansion industry and has the potential to satisfy the worldwide demand of fish production related to the global population growth. Technological and methodological innovations are needed not only to optimize the production but also to assure its sustainability. The paper describes a system to be placed in sea aquaculture plants, in order to improve the enterprise sustainability from environmental, economical and ethical points of view. Several devices compose the system, able to solve practical issues emerged from a case study in south of Italy. At the same time, it is an answer to the concerns about the food sustainability production and the intensity of resource needed, typical of Food Citizenship. The system' devices are described.