Introduction:

Biofloc technology is a bioremediation process that allows minimizing the exchange of water and its use in aquaculture systems.

Objective:

to present trends in scientific publications about Biofloc technology for fish production, using bibliometric analysis tools.

Materials and methods:

the Web of Science database was used, with a search equation and information processing supported by the BibExcel and VOSviewer tools. A systematic analysis was carried out on the recovered documents, considering type of culture, experimental time, growth and protein yield, population density, water quality, microbiological and physiological characteristics of the crop. Categories were determined in which the studies related to technology and the main challenges identified in the application of technology are defined.

Results:

258 documents were found, 94.12 % corresponded to research articles. Productivity was higher in 2014 and 2016. The Federal University of Santa Catarina and Federal University of Rio Grande FURG in Brazil have the highest production. In co-authorship, 18 nodes were identified. 59.3 °% of the documents reported investigations with shrimp and 18.99 % with tilapia. The best production times were in the ranges of 41-50 days (12.4 %), 2130 days (11.24 %) and 51-60 days (9.68 %). The C:N ratio was not reported in 92.6 % of the studies. However, 3.48 % reported ratios of 15:1 and 1.16 % of 20:1. The main categories were performance (44.18 %) and productivity (26.35 %).

Conclusions:

Biofloc technology represents an opportunity for sustainability in species aquaculture practices. A gradual growth in research processes was evidenced in recent years; the main studies are related to the performance in terms of growth and optimization of the protein conversion processes in the analyzed crops, whether individual or in polyculture.

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