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Aquaponics is a food production system that couples aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish, snails or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) whereby the nutrient-rich aquaculture water is fed to hydroponically grown plants.
Astacus astacus, the European crayfish, noble crayfish, or broad-fingered crayfish, is the most common species of crayfish in Europe, and a traditional food source. Like other true crayfish, A. astacus is restricted to fresh water , living only in unpolluted streams, rivers, and lakes.
Murray crayfish have large white claws and a dark olive/grey/black carapace, all of which are covered in short robust spikes. [2] In small individuals, the claws are green and yellow. [2] The crayfish begin to breed when they are 15–20 cm (6–8 in) long, which takes between 6 and 9 years. [2]
Crayfish usually have limited home range and so they rest, digest, and eliminate their waste, most commonly in the same location each day. Feeding exposes the crayfish to risk of predation, and so feeding behaviour is often rapid and synchronised with feeding processes that reduce such risks — eat, hide, process and eliminate.
The signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) is a species of crayfish indigenous to North America. Introduced to Europe in the 1960s to supplement the North European Astacus astacus fisheries, which were being damaged by crayfish plague , it was subsequently discovered that the signal was itself a carrier of that disease.
Faxonius immunis is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. [2] It is native to North America and it is an introduced species in Europe, where it lives along the Upper Rhine . Its common names include calico crayfish and papershell crayfish .
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The Big Sandy crayfish is listed as threatened wherever found under the ESA. [2] It was originally reviewed for listing in 1991 when it was known as C. veteranus. The crayfish was proposed to be listed as endangered with C. veteranus on 7 April 2015, which is when the two new species were distinguished in the ESA (ECOS 12 month finding). [6]