Integrated multitrophic aquaculture business model in Danube area

Abstract

The importance of water for life, as a component of the global ecosystem, is becoming clearer and clearer. Water resources are influenced by many activities such as those belonging to agriculture and industry as well as domestic activities. This paper has contributed to the modeling aquaculture business domain and to improve some of quality indicators of the Danube's corps of water. The aims of this study is to integrate in aquaculture business model the aquaculture production system with agricultural production system (aquaponics) and to reconcile and achieve social, economic and environmental objectives with processing and marketing action to add more value to end aquaponics products.