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The importance of aquaculture in Asia goes beyond its relatively high contribution to the worldwide aquaculture output. Fish products feature prominently in local diets of Southeast Asia. Around 31 million people are employed in aquaculture in Asia, writes Rui…

The level of success we get in catfish farming is usually tied to the level of management practices we decide to put in place in conjuction with the level of efficiency we achieve from our culture systems, writes Lanre Ogunsina, Fish Unlimited. Part 2 and 3 co…

Eel farming is a growing industry across the globe and is becoming more lucrative each year.

Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) is a marine, cold-water flat fish that is farmed in Canada, Iceland, the UK and Norway. The development of halibut aquaculture began in the 1980's but it is only in recent years that many of the challenges in farmin…

Penaeid shrimp production is under continuous threat by bacterial and particularly viral infections which have caused disastrous collapses of the industry in all major shrimp producing countries. This article reports on recent progress in the development of fe…

The level of success we get in catfish farming is usually tied to the level of management practices we decide to put in place in conjuction with the level of efficiency we achieve from our culture systems, writes Lanre Ogunsina, Fish Unlimited in Part 1.

Florfenicol (FLR) is a commonly used antibiotic for the treatment of bacterial diseases in white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. In this study, Xianyun Ren, Luqing Pan and Lin Wang, Ocean University of China, evaluated the tissue distribution and elimination, cha…

At the Galician coast, mussels are cultured on vertical ropes attached to floating rafts, which are cleaned in situ with tars or waterproof paints. The present study, by F. San Juan et al, University of Vigo, Spain, analyses the composition and the toxic risk …

In a study by Rachel Cristina Prehl Alves et al, Universidade de So Paulo, the authors evaluated the stunning effectiveness of thermonarcosis, carbon dioxide narcosis and electronarcosis by assessing the electrical brain activity of tilapia. Although results v…