Enhancing opportunistic polychaete communities under fish farms: an alternative concept for integrated aquaculture

Abstract

INTRODUCTION 1.1. Need for benthic mitigation of fish waste Key sustainability issues must be resolved in openwater fish farming to realize the expected potential in future food production from aquaculture. Direct im pacts of open-water finfish aquaculture are observed on the seabed in the near vicinity of the fish farms where particulate organic waste (faeces and uneaten feed pellets) settle and change the structure and function of benthic communities and biochemi-