BOMOSA - Advantages

BOMOSA Advantages

Simplicity: Because of the localized operations and consumption, problems of transport and refrigeration are minimized. Application of cheap, simple and easy to handle technologies.
Flexibility: A wide range of formerly under-utilized water bodies can be used for aquaculture. Fish can be harvested on-demand and for both local consumption and additional income generation.
Sustainability through utilization of local resources: local human resources, local water bodies, local agricultural by-products as a feed resource, environmental impacts monitored by water users.
Phasing-out high protein feeds: BOMOSA is investigating new standards in low protein feeds from locally available agricultural by-products and thus is adopting up a mainstream idea of moving away from "exotic" and expensive high protein feeds.
Socio-economic impact: BOMOSA operations are set-up and run by the rural communities in which they are established. This "local ownership" leads to "local responsibility" and "local benefits".
Rural networking in aquaculture: Small-scale aquaculture networks (coordinated in a hub and plot system) such as BOMOSA have the potential to fill the mid-range area between large-scale fish farms and subsistence inland aquaculture.