Briefing: Intensive inland aquaculture ponds: challenges and research opportunities

This briefing presents an overview of inland aquaculture scenario that focuses on challenges of aquaculture farming, contaminant transport and the future of aqua farming in a broader perspective of environmental geotechnics. Un-engineered aquaculture practices are a cause of concern and special attention is necessary in wastewater management, cross-contamination with the adjacent environment, sludge-subsoil interaction, pond embankment slope failure, leachate migration into the vadose zone, geoenvironmental remediation strategies, and geotechnical engineering aspects of engineered pond construction.