Less than 30 days for producing 100 lettuces of 400 g of average weight in our aquaponic system with flathead grey mullet in IRTA La Ràpita. hashtag#Aquaponics a sustainable and use-efficient system for producing fish …
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IRTAmar®, a Successful RAS History in Aquaculture
Our story begins at IRTA 25 years ago, allowing us to reach our current proposal, integrated by IRTA and INGESOM, into a Comprehensive Service Platform aimed at promoting aquaculture using RAS technology. We focus on …
IRTAmar®, una historia de éxito de los RAS en acuicultura. Artículo publicado en PAM
Nuestra historia se inicia en el IRTA, hace 25 años, permitiéndonos llegar a nuestra actual propuesta, integrada por IRTA e INGESOM: una Plataforma Integral de Servicios enfocados a impulsar la acuicultura mediante el uso de …
Comparative study of the gut microbial communities collected by scraping and swabbing in a fish model: a comprehensive guide to promote non-lethal procedures for gut microbial studies
In this trial, rainbow trout with a body weight of 390.5 ± 36.8 g (mean ± standard deviation) and a standard length of 28.5 ± 0.8 cm were used. Since our purpose was to establish a microbial comparison regarding different methodological approaches, captivity …
Production of Flathead Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus) and Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) in a Coupled Aquaponic System under Suboptimal Water Temperatures
The combined production of three varieties of lettuce (romaine, iceberg, and red leaf) with flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) was tested in triplicate in three independent coupled aquaponic units with no thermal control. For this …
“A new IRTAmar® infrastructure in progress”
We have started the construction process of a new IRTAmar unit for our client. In order to properly adjust the distribution and positioning of each of the pieces, since it is a complex installation that …
Reproductive control and larval culture of flathead grey mullet (Mugil cephalus).
Food determines ephemerous and non-stable gut microbiome communities in juvenile wild and farmed Mediterranean fish
The two groups of farmed S. aurata used for this study in 2019 and 2021 were supplied by two different hatcheries located at the same latitude on the Spanish Mediterranean coast and were transported to IRTA’s (Institut de Recerca …
Dietary Debaryomyces hansenii promotes skin and skin mucus defensive capacities in a marine fish model
A total of 500 S. aurata juveniles (BW = 14.5 ± 1.2 g) were obtained from a commercial farm (PISCIMAR SL; AVRAMAR, Burriana, Spain) and transported and acclimated to IRTA-La Ràpita research facilities (La Ràpita, …
Researcher, let IRTAmar® take care of everything.
How many times have we come across scientists trying to design and build their own RAS system to carry out their experiments. Their work is commendable, but in most cases unfortunately it ends in failure, …