Ecological aquaculture is the controlled offspring and raising of fish and other water animals in farms under ecological aspects. The ecological aquaculture is only in the middle of the 90's, from which, resulted to development of special guidelines of individual cultivation federations in Europe. The ecological aquaculture in Germany and Austria von who required an adequate quality assurance for the range aquaculture, became lively.

In the ecological aquaculture the fish grow (e.g. Carp, Forellen and salmon) in nature-left waters near. At least half of the food originates from the own production of waters (small cancers, insect larvae, algae among other things). The remainder of the food originates from recognized ecological agriculture.

The ecological aquaculture is particularly important in Shrimps production. The sensitive habitat is destroyed at many tropical coasts for the plant of wide conventional pond plants. Also the water quality is impaired by and the employment by antibiotics substantial. Around the to protect there are pilot projects of nature country in co-operation with the German society for technical co-operation in Ecuador ltd. (GTZ) for ecological Shrimps production.

Related links

• www.naturland.de - nature country - federation for ecological agriculture registered association.

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