Tilapia is globally recognized as one of the most important aquaculture species of the 21st century. Tilapia culture has expanded rapidly in a wide range of farming environments from extensive to…
Introduction
Discussion of the current shrimp disease crisis focuses on the microbiology of pathogens and the regulations needed to limit their spread locally and across national boundaries (FAO…
Worldwide harvest of farmed tilapia has now surpassed 800,000 metric tons, and tilapia are second only to carps as the most widely farmed freshwater fish in the world, reveal Thomas Popma, from…
A new book by scientists based in the Caribbean titled 'Cage culture, the practice of rearing fish in cages', offers a practical overview of how to rear tilpia in net pens.
VIETNAM - Vietnam's Ministry of Fisheries is setting an annual production target of 200,000 tonnes of tilapia by 2010, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Hong Minh said.
Published by Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific - The main species of Pangasid catfishes recently adopted for culture with Indian Major Carps are Yellowtail catfish (Pangasius pangasius)…
By Donald W. Freeman USDA, ARS Aquaculture Systems Research Unit, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - A study is underway to assess the effectiveness of initially feeding a small-diameter, starter…
CANADA - The latest anti-aquaculture assault by activist Alexandra Morton in a journal article alleging a link between sea lice and salmon farms continues a well-documented pattern of exaggeration…
By Merrill Leffler, published by Maryland Sea Grant, University of Maryland - Aquaculture in the United States may have grown rapidly over this last decade, says Yonathan Zohar, "but it is still…
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