Keys to daily water quality testing, management and the human factor.

Monitoring and managing water quality daily is a key process to running any aquaculture facility, especially with recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). The importance of excellent water quality cannot be overstated, but the gap between knowing its importance and setting up a proper water quality monitoring program is immense. Equally immense is the gap between employees that can take and measure water quality, and those that can interpret water quality and choose when to act.

These two keys – a proper monitoring schedule and employees that can use monitoring information to manage water quality – are essential to the health of stock and farm.