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  • Glossary item | 20 Mar 2025

Regenerative aquaculture

Regenerative aquaculture can be defined as a farming approach that uses aquatic ecosystem (instead of soil in agriculture) conservation as the entry point to regenerate and contribute to provisioning, regulating, and supporting ecosystem services.

K. Chary, A.J. van Riel, A. Muscat, A. Wilfart, S. Harchaoui, M. Verdegem, …, G.F. Wiegertjes Transforming sustainable aquaculture by applying circularity principles Rev. Aquac. (2023), 10.1111/raq.12860

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