Live feed

Artemia are valuable as live feeds for the early life stages of shrimp. While they might be expensive, if used correctly – as explained below – they should fully justify the investment

Although some shrimp and finfish hatcheries are looking to switch from Artemia in favour of alternative first feeds, aquaculture nutritionists say that – for the time being – brine shrimp are going to continue to play a …

The survival rate of juvenile marine finfish in aquaculture hatcheries could be on the cusp of improvement following a new research breakthrough.

The growth of grouper aquaculture has been held back by the difficulties experienced in the larval rearing stage. However, according to CFEED, the use of copepods at the first feeding stage is leading to marked improveme…

India’s shrimp sector needs to develop its own supplies of larval feed and seed stocks, according to a new report.

New research has revealed that lumpfish exposed to live prey and frozen sea lice prior to transfer to marine sites perform better as cleaner fish once stocked in salmon pens.

Pioneering technologies that create Artemia that can suppress vibrio growth and hatch in the dark have been launched today by INVE Aquaculture, Benchmark’s Advanced Nutrition division, today.

Aqua-Spark has today announced new investments in BioFishency, an innovator in water treatment systems for use in land-based aquaculture, and Molofeed, whose new formula can replace live feed earlier in the larval rearin…

Benchmark has won a case which effectively protects its patents relating to its Artemia hatching and enrichment technologies.

The secret source of live feeds for the production of larval shrimp and finfish was revealed at a conference in London today.

During his 45 years at Ardtoe Marine Laboratory Jon Sherwood – one of the unsung heroes of Scottish aquaculture – has been quietly involved in all manner of pioneering fish-farming projects

BioMar has opened a state-of-the-art marine fish larval trial unit for both larval rearing and the production of live feed.

Morine Mukami, a research scientist at the aquaculture department of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute in Mombasa, outlines the importance of Artemia as a live feed for larviculture.

INVE Aquaculture has successfully renewed its sales and marketing agreement with the Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Cooperative (GSL COOP).

A Norwegian firm that has devised a way to catch and store live zooplankton in the ocean in a manner that allows it to be defrosted and fed, still living, to juvenile marine finfish is one of the three nominees for this …