Aquaculture for all

US Feed Outlook

Economics

All feed grains prices are lowered this month as financial and macroeconomic developments have combined with supply and demand fundamentals to reduce grain prices in 2008/09, reports the ERS USDA.

Aquaculture Safety Planning

Health

A safe workplace is created when everyone takes a role in managing health and safety issues, says a new Aquaculture Safety Code of Practice, published by the Workers Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island. A good safety management program can help avoid in…

Virus in Victoria: The Story of Abalone

Health

In December 2005, unexplained mortalities of farmed abalone were detected in two Western Victoria land-based farms, one at Portland, the other at Port Fairy. A couple of years later the Victoria Abalone Divers Association claimed that large parts of the Abalon…

Response to a Suspected Toxin-Induced Fish Kill

Biosecurity

Occasionally catastrophic fish kills occur in aquaculture production facilities as well as in home aquaria or backyard ponds, says Ruth Francis-Floyd, Christopher Brooks, and Denise Petty. This article was published by the University of Florida IFAS Extension.…