Evaluación experimental comparativa de remoción de materia orgánica del sistema acuapónico a escala piloto y vertimientos de sistemas acuícolas tradicionales (meta)

Abstract

Aquaponics as an innovative technique aims to save water resources and care for the environment along with raising the percentage of food security through the reuse of water and obtaining food in an organic way, much healthier. At present, and through our own experiences, there is a lack of environmental commitment by some fish companies, negatively affecting and detrimental to the sustainability of the resource, even more, taking into account that, at the national level, the department of Meta occupies a relevant position in this productive field. For this reason, the search for innovative techniques that allow the development of the fish and aquaculture production system is sought. Therefore, through the project, the aquaponic system was designed and evaluated as a sustainable option of breeding, production of fish and food with organic development, which consists of three phases, called, as phase I consisted of the design and pilot assembly of the Aquaponic system together with the adequacy of the site, phase II consisted in the taking of physical-chemical and microbiological parameters and phase III the statistical analysis of the results was proposed. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the removal efficiency of Nitrites, Nitrates, BOD, COD and OSH of a pilot scale prototype of the aquaponic closed system, located on the Aguas Claras campus of the Santo Tomás University, against the spills of a Traditional aquaculture process, planted with red Tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) from the El Manantial fish farm, Restrepo-Meta, for a period of six months. Thus demonstrating that it is an optional technique that significantly reduces pollution to the environment and also aims to meet four (4) objectives of sustainable development that allows obtaining study data and comparative statistical analysis of these two systems in one of the departments leader in the fish farming activity, expecting in general a material that serves as a dissemination tool for fishery producers to find out and see the feasibility of this productive system against the activities that they have been carrying out.