By comparison with the vast sums of money involved in high-tech salmon farming the battle against parasites might seem like small fry, yet sea lice continue to elude modern eradication methods. Adam…
Statistical data indicate that common carp production may have come close to its limit. However, common carp will remain an important species in those areas where it is produced traditionally. The…
Rapid increases in production have led to falling prices, which in turn have put increasing pressures on producers to limit costs. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations explains…
Just like a home garden, the fertility of the water in a pond determines how productive the pond will be, writes Dr. J.Wesley Neal, Assistant Extension Professor/Fisheries Specialist, Department of…
Compiled and edited by Damien Toner and Carole Rougeot and produced inconjunction with the Aquaculture Technical Section, AquacultureDevelopment Division, An Bord Iascaigh Mhara.
Two new projects have been funded by both the 6th EU Framework Programme on Light Technology for Photoperiod Regulation in Cod Mariculture (CodLight-Tech) and a Norwegian Research Council grant on…
This guide from LaDon Swann, IIlinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program, Purdue University, helps fish farmers better understand the properties of water and how water quality effects fish culture.
By Jane Jordan, Editor, TheFishSite.The development of novel marine finfish production requires reliable and cost effective supplies of juvenile fish. The OPEL project - 'The optimisation of…
In this article – published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service – Brian C. Small discusses how managing egg diseases and improving hatch rates in…
By Jeffrey M. Hinshaw and Skipper L. Thompson, North Carolina State University and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service.
NORWAY - Harald Takle, research fellow at AKVAFORSK, has identified several genes that are active when deformities occur at the egg stage in farmed salmon. He recently presented his findings in his…
For more than two decades, fish farms in the Bet Shean Valley of Israel have cultured a local stock of tilapia derived from hybridizing blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) and Nile tilapia (O.…
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