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Mass balance

Feed in, fish out: why every aquaculture design starts with a mass balance

The daily feed load, not the tank, sets the size of every treatment component in a fed aquaculture system. A mass balance built from feed rate, feed conversion and diet composition is the only defensible starting point, and in the trout farm studies that have tested it, it predicts measured discharges to within a few per cent.

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