PMID- 35038521
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220311
LR  - 20220531
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 819
DP  - 2022 May 1
TI  - Effects of climate and environmental variance on the performance of a novel 
      peatland-based integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) system: Implications 
      and opportunities for advancing research and disruptive innovation post COVID-19 
      era.
PG  - 153073
LID - S0048-9697(22)00163-2 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153073 [doi]
AB  - Advancing wet peatland 'paludiculture' innovation present enormous potential to 
      sustain carbon-cycles, reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) gas emissions and to 
      transition communities to low-carbon economies; however, there is limited 
      scientific-evidence to support and enable direct commercial viability of 
      eco-friendly products and services. This timely study reports on a novel, 
      paludiculture-based, integrated-multi-trophic-aquaculture (IMTA) system for 
      sustainable food production in the Irish midlands. This freshwater IMTA process 
      relies on a naturally occurring ecosystem of microalgae, bacteria and duckweed in 
      ponds for managing waste and water quality that is powered by wind turbines; 
      however, as it is recirculating, it does not rely upon end-of-pipe solutions and 
      does not discharge effluent to receiving waters. This constitutes the first 
      report on the effects of extreme weather events on the performance of this IMTA 
      system that produces European perch (Perca fluviatilis), rainbow trout 
      (Oncorhynchus mykiis) during Spring 2020. Sampling coincided with lockdown 
      periods of worker mobility restriction due to COVID-19 pandemic. Observations 
      revealed that the frequency and intensity of storms generated high levels of 
      rainfall that disrupted the algal and bacterial ecosystem in the IMTA leading to 
      the emergence and predominance of toxic cyanobacteria that caused fish mortality. 
      There is a pressing need for international agreement on standardized set of 
      environmental indicators to advance paludiculture innovation that addresses 
      climate-change and sustainability. This study describes important technical 
      parameters for advancing freshwater aquaculture (IMTA), which can be future 
      refined using real-time monitoring-tools at farm level to inform management 
      decision-making based on evaluating environmental indicators and weather data. 
      The relevance of these findings to informing global sustaining and disruptive 
      research and innovation in paludiculture is presented, along with alignment with 
      UN Sustainable Development goals. This study also addresses global challenges and 
      opportunities highlighting a commensurate need for international agreement on 
      resilient indicators encompassing linked ecological, societal, cultural, economic 
      and cultural domains.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - O'Neill, E A
AU  - O'Neill EA
AD  - Bioscience Research Institute, Technological University of the Shannon - Midlands 
      and Midwest, University Road, Athlone, Ireland. Electronic address: 
      e.oneill@research.ait.ie.
FAU - Morse, A P
AU  - Morse AP
AD  - Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, 
      University of Liverpool, UK.
FAU - Rowan, N J
AU  - Rowan NJ
AD  - Bioscience Research Institute, Technological University of the Shannon - Midlands 
      and Midwest, University Road, Athlone, Ireland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220114
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Aquaculture
MH  - COVID-19
MH  - *Climate
MH  - Communicable Disease Control
MH  - Environment
MH  - Humans
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - *Perches
MH  - Wetlands
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Sustainable aquaculture
OT  - climate change
OT  - disruptive innovation
OT  - environmental indicators
OT  - food security
OT  - paludiculture
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that there are no competing 
      interests or conflicts of interest with respect to the publication of this 
      article.
EDAT- 2022/01/18 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/12 06:00
CRDT- 2022/01/17 20:11
PHST- 2021/11/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/01/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/01/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/01/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/12 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/01/17 20:11 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(22)00163-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153073 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2022 May 1;819:153073. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153073. 
      Epub 2022 Jan 14.