The aquaculture industry is increasingly reliant upon industrially compounded aquafeeds, and the availability of cost-effective feedstuffs is a serious constraint to continued growth within the aquaculture sector, write Jesse T. Trushenski and Alexis Bergman.
Problems with lice and losses can be heavily reduced by placing farmed fish in closed systems until the fish reach a weight of one kilo. This has been shown by research conducted by scientists at Uni Research in Bergen, Norway.
A 50-day feeding trial was conducted to determine the effects of dietary bamboo charcoal (BC) on ammonia (NH3-N) excretion and growth performances of Pangasius hypophthalmus, write M Sadiqul Islam et al, Bangladesh Agricultural University.
This publication summarizes basic management practices for the majority of farmers raising marine shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in Indiana, US, based on the most current literature available, writes Robert Rode, Purdue University.
A type of clay used in cosmetics, medicine, and papermaking may be just what aquaculture farmers need to fight columnarisa costly and deadly bacterial disease that affects freshwater finfish worldwide, writes Sandra Avant, USDA, ARS.
