Growing Fish in Greenhouses

Milwaukee's Growing Power, a community-based urban food center, is using plants as natural water filters for raising yellow perch. Fred Binkowski, an aquaculture specialist with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, provides technical advice on the experimental effort.
www.growingpower.org
www.seagrant.wisc.edu

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[davehutchinson67]

Hey idiot..didn't you hear him say they sell to local restaurants and farmer's markets and such....the place at least breaks even or runs at a modest profit. Even if it ran at a slight loss...it's worth the investment 10x over. Fuck you Monsanto.

[tappakeggaday1]

pearch,hybrid  bass,fresh water prawns,tilapia,I could see fresh water shrimp getting fat off of this.now if they started going more verticle with this as the sky is the limit I would love to see that and how they would prop up the fish tanks at different levels and have walkways to harvest food!! there's a lot of possibilities here for sure.

[Billy Batson]

Now that's what I call "going green".

[SHOOKSLAY]

Mercury is found in fish atbth

[Dafydd Nicholas]

This brings hope and employment while reducing wasteful transpiration.

[WishingBones]

one word, Genius.

[NeoMatudio]

wow! this is what we called man-made Eco-system. Great idea, hope they will share this system to other agriculturist.

[SuperLastMohican]

I'm going to build one in my room...I love eating fish but I don't like paying money for it

[Billy Bong]

What are they using to feed the fish.

Feeding PHarmed Fish remains the biggest obstacle.

Are they being fed antibiotics, growth hormones, hydrolyzed poultry feathers and such?

[rjm420silverback]

Imagine this franchised in a manner to where the community ultimately gains with overall economic stability. Bravo!

[TruJezter]

If you put gutters at the bottom most part of the glass the condensation isn't a problem.

[jntroisi]

Very cool