Space Aquaculture: Prospects for Raising Aquatic Vertebrates in a Bioregenerative Life-Support System on a Lunar Base

The presence of a human community on the Moon or Mars for long-term residence would require setting up production unit allowing partial total food autonomy. One major objectives bioregenerative life-support system is to provide sources crewed missions using in situ resources and converting these into necessary sustain life space. nutritive quality aquatic organisms makes them prospective candidates supplement nutrients supplied by photosynthetic already studied context space missions. To this end, it relevant study potential fish be first vertebrate reared framework agriculture. This article investigates prospects aquaculture through an overview principal involving low orbit detailed presentation results date Lunar Hatch program, which studying possibility aquaculture. A promising avenue recirculating systems integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, recycles waste convert food. In sense, development application shares same with sustainable Earth, thus could indirectly participate preservation our planet.