Why Aquaponics?

It helps combat effects of over-fishing.

90% of protein consumption in Tanzania consists of fish, few of which are left off its coast.

It evades reef destruction.

Most fishing occurs in sea grass beds, mangrove, and coral reefs. Supplying fish protein through aquaponics cuts down on the reef destruction already occurring due to warming ocean temperatures and pollution.

It alleviates the effects of climate change.

Climate change has caused unpredictability of rains, leading local people to overcompensate for unreliable food sources by fishing even more or migrating out of native areas. Aquaponics allows people to remain in their homelands without causing extensive damage to fish populations, which then helps counteract the stresses of global climate change.

It promotes ocean revitalization.

Commercial fisheries create mass dead zones from fish waste (nitrogen), but aquaponics utilizes this nitrogen to fuel plant growth.