GOOD: Urban Aquaculture

[amberled]

Hi I do workstudy at this lab!

[mrtigretiger]

Iam thinking fish farming, hydroponic spinach,tomato and wheat there we go I grow my own sandwich!

[mrtigretiger]

Everybody should one of these in their basement or garage.

[RioLuna829]

Even better than "close to where the product is consumed" would be "grown by the person who is nourished by this life." Product and Consumer are ugly words.

[Swansen03]

@RioLuna829 indeed

[istudywater]

This is awesome!!!

[brad238899]

I thought that was aquaponics.

[Discipleforchrist]

it is!

[chir0pter]

too much weird music, montage, and factoids and not enough info on what the system looks like and how functions

[valdezorbust]

@chir0pter Exactly

[TheBuilderguy1]

I agree we have overfished our enviroment.... 2 1/2 million taxpayer dollars. Dude! drop off the key, lee. You are part of the problem. Do you know how many people 2 1/2 million dollars will feed? You are a government drain on the economy.

[mhmdulce]

Amazing. This is the move.

[willholl69]

CONSUMERS WILL PAY MORE!!!!!!

Not correct not right!!!

Despicable

Greed!!!

and on and on

If production is closer to the population center, should the cost not be less??

This production should be to improve all no t to increase the gain othe UPPERS!!!

for PETE'S sake!!! MECHANICAL SYSTEM =holy friehoiles Mother Earth has the system. I am beyond nute and these statements are pushing me farther down the rode.

It is amazing how such smart IQ folke can be so clueless.

and end with GREED!!!

[sbhuiyan]

@willholl69 Geez don't try to act smart. Hello have you seen the housing cost in NYC? Space is expensive. Greed is good, too much of it is bad. And if you are not greedy. I can spend you a po box to spend me your money.

[valdezorbust]

@willholl69 I would like to see what it is that you are saying but the way you type makes that impossible.

[willholl69]

CONSUMERS WILL PAY MORE!!!!!!

Not correct not right!!!

Despicable

Greed!!!

and on and on

If production is closer to the population center, should the cost not be less??

This production should be to improve all no t to increase the gain othe UPPERS!!!

for PETE'S sake!!!

[eric24weber]

@willholl69 you talk about greed. Greedy is the person who keeps on wanting to pay less for his food when farmers can't even make a decent wage and farm workers are imported for cheap labour.

A sustainable system brings decent wages to local people which builds a stronger economy and gives the consumer a better/fresher product because it is bought locally. A win a win situation.

[coolymcool]

@drahm33 the electricity used to transport fish to the city from farms elsewhere is much more than that required to run a local water pump/filtration system. and fish food is not expensive at all.

[valdezorbust]

@coolymcool Fish food is made form fish by products. We go to the ocean to catch fish in order to feed fish.

[drahm33]

I hate aquaculture videos by academics that do not address the cost of electricity or fish food. We live in the real world.

[AaaaghJOE]

2:17....

[Fire4FX]

Telapia is banned in Australia unfortunately as a live fish source. But I have seen perch & barramundi live in local fish stores.

[philoposos]

Cool : this is an industrial ecology.

( At least it doesn't look like another one of those hippie dirty ecological stupidity! )

[davedavedaveannoy1]

Its better then soil erosion and contamination...its self sustaing...its environmentally friendly...all you need is water...and an old guy with a masters degree approves of it...

I'M IN, WHERE CAN I SIGN UP!

[WaiWu]

so where do they get the food for fish? if it's from an outside source then it's not really substantial

[sok8888]

Just want to add that you could have save a lot of research by talking to the Chinese farmers who has been using hydroponic system for thousands of years - rice field with carps and shrimps. In fact, my grandfather was farming fishes from mountain spring filled pond that cascade to his vegetable/rice field, which then cascade down to an duck farm, which the waste was dried and used as fertilizer. The ducks loves to hike 300m up to swim at the fish pond and eat insects from the vegetable farm.

[InKa4484]

I wish i could do this.

[surebenwin]

hi! where can i learn this urban farming from? is there any way i can get a hold of you guys? i think this is the best way to produce better food for humanity.please let me know where i can learn this from.

[surebenwin]

hi! where can i learn this urban farming from? is there any way i can get a hold of you guys? i think this is the best way to produce better food for humanity.

[danman911]

Dont forget to house a few chickens in the room also. They produce a lot of BTU's of heat, and eggs. They eat anything left over also.

[paperhummingbird]

I wonder if one day every city would have a beautiful aquarium where we could admire fish, learn about sustainability, and supply local markets...

[RoyalJackofSpades]

@paperhummingbird lets get one city to that first. its a grand dream of mine

[canandie]

It takes three pounds of feeder fish to make one pound of fish for humans to consume. Thus exploiting the other fish that we need to save as well.

[speedolite]

This is an old number. It is now around 1.8 to 2 lbs. But even so, the fish in the system described eat a vegetarian diet. By far most of the forage fish caught in the ocean go to feed chickens, pigs and yes, your pet cat.

[dontlikenumbers]

You don't know anything about tilapia fish. They are herbivores. They eat plant matter. So, where did you pull that figure from?

[2266money]

@canandie then how about farming those feeder fish and feed them a meat type diet like they do with cows

[krxlhubxu]

Can somebody please tell me what's the medium used as an alternative to soil that was made to stick to styrofoam? Thanks!

[foggelus]

@krxlhubxu it looked like rockwool but there is a better product out called suretogrow its not natural because its made from recycled food grade plastic but that means it won't leak harmful chemicals into the water. If you are looking at organics expanded clay pellets are the way to go, they are reusable and ph neutral. rockwool has to have its ph adjusted and its not reusable and neither is the suretogrow.

[lianghaochen]

@krxlhubxu hydroponic

[dontlikenumbers]

some people use shredded coconut husks.

[WalkingTourCommunity]

Started trying to attract the attention of my Congressman Jim Himes to take a look at the Bridgeport Aquaculture Center, a high school in his district. This is a good find! The periphyton-based aquaculture technology used in Haiti, and in SE Asia has a much lower cost, but I do like this professor's idea for indoor tilapia in high-rise buildings. Catfish and Carp raised in a tall urban building is already being done in Europe.

[MarkProffitt]

Localization is likely to use less time and materials, but the value of that time and materials might be much cheaper in other locations. So it might be better to use the resources near the city to build things the farming in the country side can't make then trade with them. Everyone gets more of what they need and want.

[Plum369]

true we need a local source...the tilapia i find a the grocery store and walmart are all farm raised in China...who knows what kind of lead and everything else might be in them.

[thakook]

HAHA SUPER FISH! 3:04

[mountfujiave]

Nutty Professor. Love it. I wish I was back in college studying this sort of stuff.

[Muradthekhan]

LOVE IT RESPECT IT , great invention we truly need more people like you Mr Schreibman.

[kellaneric]

the problem here is people cannot stop seeing the world and all its living things solely as PRODUCTS for our consumption.

If we can fix this flaw in our thinking then were well on our way towards the right path.

peace

[Arsenic916]

its called the better alternative, your two steps ahead of everyone else

[waterwingit13]

lovely

[2266money]

i want to work there in college

[PakaNoHida]

I want to ((and can)) build a system larger then what he has there... now if I could find the capital.......

[MarkProffitt]

Try to use scavenged free materials. Start small. Focus on one high value item. Use the profits from the small system to expand.

[foggelus]

@MarkProffitt nice i can dig that

[LaserKittensGoPewPew]

drahm33- you could always find a way to supplement the lesser omega3 in their food. Say by mixing in hemp seed somehow?

[istvansm87]

Yeah agree. Obviously not. -but goes a step ahead in trying to do so... :P

[istvansm87]

Well done guys!

Save the world!

[venturadog]

It takes lot of energy to grow things in a closed system like he shows.For every one to to do that doesn't save the world.

[mjtrustfund]

2 much pvc... don't b stupid...

[jarcekozlinu]

svi vimeni idete na kurac, zašto toliko gladnih ima na svijetu, oće li itko to proučit,pička vam materina znanstvena

[GreenLearning]

2 mill for that ? LOL

The problem with university food systems is they don not take into account the massive energy they require to run. I bet backyardaquaponics [dot] com has people who produced more food that they did in their back yard!

[labolagi]

Hi Prof, i don't have half a million dollars but i will like to start my own small fis farm, i ve tried but it all died. any tips

[Aimrehtopyh]

I have some low-budget tips. Come say Hi!

[drahm33]

Sunlight

[javierenchina]

soon all meat will just be grown in vats through cloning anyway

[NWforager]

MAYBE US =D

[eyeofra69]

2.5 million dollar facility??? I don't think I have that much loose change in the house?? LOL!!

[ExDeeXD]

Would have been nice to see how much food they generated. 2.5 mil may be little compared to their output in fish/reduction of costs of fishing.

[SpiketheDesertDog]

I'd like to know how feasible this might be for the apartment dweller or home gardener.

[ElizabethAGreene]

I have 17 tilapia in my 60 gallon aquarium. Over the summer, their babies were in an aquaponics system in our backyard that produced 25 lbs. of meat, 30 pounds of tomatoes (that is a _lot_ of cherry tomatoes), and more basil than I could give away. Next year I am going to try to get a greenhouse. :)

[ycats1000]

thats very good setup...

was it difficult to setup?

[crock703]

yeah, that is impressive. How difficult and expensive was it to set up?

[aussiebluemax]

@ElizabethAGreene i read recently that talipia flesh may cause alzeimers disease so scientists say from a survey .have you heard or know anything about that .

[Alacritous]

@aussiebluemax

Google it. Tilapia is often included in diets as a TREATMENT for alzheimers.

[ElizabethAGreene]

@aussiebluemax - I haven't seen any papers on it and can't make an informed comment. My gut feeling is it comes down to how the fish are raised. I would be surprised if it was reproducible with fish raised in a low stress clean water environment with a quality feed.

It is my uninformed opinion that many Alzheimers patients are misdiagnosed and have Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Ruminant bone meal is (was) a very common ingredient in fish feed and may be a vector for CJD.

Best of Luck.

[sexy52637]

@ElizabethAGreene you are awesome!!!!!!!!!! can you send me pics?

[bakeee]

@ElizabethAGreene that sounds amazing, i know you commented a year ago on this video... but are u still doing that?

[Agric0la]

This is a very clever design. Thanks GoodMagazine for showing me this.

[eventide925]

Soylent Green is people...

[AqwaJ]

It can be made profitable, becuase of all the implications of transport and energy required currently for imports. This is also a way of saving water some of these systems may only lose 3%water as evaporation, the rest is taken up by the plants and fish. It has been done before but most commercial aquaculture does not do this very wasteful. Vegetarianism is great, however maybe eat less, and starving people causes wars, so solutions are needed unfortunately. Aus.

[VideoCre8]

This is not a radical new idea hell my high school builders team did the same thing for a competition they had sea bass in a giant vat with a filter system and grew grain, tomatos, oregano, and basil from the nutrients of the fish waste then they grilled the bass put the chopped tomatos and spices on top of it and they even made pasta and put their own sauce on it they won first place

[YouToobPresident]

yeah its not a new idea.. I work in hydroponics and we get customers everyday buying equipment to set up aquaculture systems. I really like the sea bass and filtration idea man :).. freshwater fish would be easier and less costly to maintain.. But salt water fish generally are the tastiest :)

[crock703]

What is the maturation timescale of the fish you can do this with? How long from fertilization to harvest?

I gotta say, I'd be bummed to be one of those fish - looks boring.

[ycats1000]

their memory is shit...

every time they turn their head it's a new view

[crock703]

Well, all beings are unconsciously stimulated by environment in one way or another. Seems like higher fecal/bacteria presence and the density of fish in tanks would cause more anxiety/discomfort than some other situation less likely to inspire fight/flight response.)

seems like they're probably just swimming around, constantly surprised at how freaked they are.

[crock703]

Lack of memory probably means the effect of the the environment doesn't well up enough to make them 'depressed fishies," but the effect probably appears physically elsewhere in the animal -- physiological effects of increased adrenaline(?) or whatever hormones(?) released in response.

There is weird stuff about the chains of fat cells differing in farmed vs wild fish, and they don't really know why (maybe just breeding.) It does mean less healthy Omega 3 for their lucky dinner companions tho.

[drahm33]

Less omega 3 because there food has less omega 3 in it.

[crock703]

Really? What's the deal with the 'increased' omega 6, effect of diff food?

[speedsk8r010]

Brilliant! how much for a system? Do you think you could adapt this system to a salt water version?

[YouToobPresident]

The idea is to consume the fish as well as the plants produced. I guess you would need a fast growing tasty salt water plant, and it would be much more costly and difficult to control the onductivity levels due to eveporation :)

[Lugo428]

@speedsk8r010  This system can be used for ANY version. Hot, cold, fresh, salty, clear, murky, anything. He taught me that like last week.

[OmgDiscoDied]

this is a pretty cool idea but won't the people who make a living off of importing fish and sea food products complain due to lack of demand because of the local market?

[Gargess]

That's the problem. Traditional fishing has basically depleted us of fish and other sea life so they're already getting hit pretty hard. They must adapt to a new system quick anyway because they're not going to survive as fishermen.

[onlinedesign]

The fact remains that more than 80% of US seafood is imported from overseas (along with their diseases and contamination). Our oceans cannot yield enough product to feed the masses as it is - and if the ocean yields a 1-2% decrease, that means hundreds of thousands of people will NOT HAVE PROTIEN IN THEIR DIET AT ALL. So aquaculture will not bankrupt the fishermen - only make more food, that is clean, local, and safe for us to eat. Aquaculture is the solution for the world food crisis.

[arcusdog]

Why would a reduction of ocean yield deprive people entirely of protein? There are many other sources of protein besides fish.

[chasingcowboydust]

they don't taste the same...

[beanbag1985]

lol AGGHHHHHH!!!!!, its really good

[LeoHareMusic]

Skip the fish---go vegetarian!

[youtoobkid]

dont go veg

people need to eat animals for population control

[bert3976]

Yeah I agree, people that eat factory farmed animals deserve to die from it!

[RarewareLover]

Free the fish!

[WatanukiProductions]

Imports are cheaper, I like your system but if you can't make it cheap and efficient than fuck you.

[PockyEater101]

I dont think I would be able to handle breeding fish only for people to eat them.

[ya19375]

also if your worried about the environment how about not having kids, and adopting one already on this planet.

[iamthe404]

this feeds like 1% of ppl?

[Swif41]

awsome cant wait to get my own house so i can live green

[danclim]

MARTIN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!! this guy is an example and hope for this f...* up planet!

[cruxbucket]

huh hydroponic plants fed by the animals? wtf i want one in my basement. Oi guvalt

[icecreamforlunch]

If we continue to road we are on then this will not be an alternative but rather a last resort. Fingers crossed for some funding.

[Geo2495]

I know. Marti is the greatest and that is why I know this will eventually become a reality. Yes, someone has to step up to the plate. Martin Schreibman will be the person to call if I find the way to finance this great cause.

[JonnaDW]

Sometimes Fairytales just need to be funded and supported at a local level. Awesome video, thank you for opening us to this new alternative.

[Geo2495]

Mr.Schreibman has done a great job of presenting the value and need of aquaculture in our present society. However, why has his dream not become a reality? Everything is there...even the space. New York City has many roofs that would be ideal for such a venture. I only hear Marti, but I don't see his actual involvement. What are you waiting for...the oceans to be depleted fully? Sounds like a great story but far from reality. Perhaps Disney is behind this fairy tale.