Aquaponics: Quick Facts

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An employee in a cap inspects rows of leafy green plants growing on floating platforms above water inside a large greenhouse at an aquaponics farm in Merignac, France.

Indoor aquaponics system with basil plants growing in a grid above a fish tank containing numerous small orange fish and aquatic plants.

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