Production systems

By comparison with the vast sums of money involved in high-tech salmon farming the battle against parasites might seem like small fry, yet sea lice continue to elude modern eradication methods. Adam Anson, reporting for TheFishSite, finds out where the war is …

Statistical data indicate that common carp production may have come close to its limit. However, common carp will remain an important species in those areas where it is produced traditionally. The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department explains how this fish…

Rapid increases in production have led to falling prices, which in turn have put increasing pressures on producers to limit costs. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations explains how the different systems of production work.

Just like a home garden, the fertility of the water in a pond determines how productive the pond will be, writes Dr. J.Wesley Neal, Assistant Extension Professor/Fisheries Specialist, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. This feature was published in MSU Care…

By James Wilson, Deepdock. Published in Shellfish News 25 Spring Summer 2008.

Compiled and edited by Damien Toner and Carole Rougeot and produced inconjunction with the Aquaculture Technical Section, AquacultureDevelopment Division, An Bord Iascaigh Mhara.

Two new projects have been funded by both the 6th EU Framework Programme on Light Technology for Photoperiod Regulation in Cod Mariculture (CodLight-Tech) and a Norwegian Research Council grant on Novel narrow bandwidth lighting technology in cod farming andit…

This guide from LaDon Swann, IIlinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program, Purdue University, helps fish farmers better understand the properties of water and how water quality effects fish culture.

By Jane Jordan, Editor, TheFishSite.The development of novel marine finfish production requires reliable and cost effective supplies of juvenile fish. The OPEL project - 'The optimisation of environmental conditions for cultivating marine finfish larvae' - was…

In this article – published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service – Brian C. Small discusses how managing egg diseases and improving hatch rates in channel catfish hatcheries requires good husbandry and contin…

By Jeffrey M. Hinshaw and Skipper L. Thompson, North Carolina State University and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service.

NORWAY - Harald Takle, research fellow at AKVAFORSK, has identified several genes that are active when deformities occur at the egg stage in farmed salmon. He recently presented his findings in his doctoral dissertation at the Norwegian University of Life Scie…

For more than two decades, fish farms in the Bet Shean Valley of Israel have cultured a local stock of tilapia derived from hybridizing blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) and Nile tilapia (O. niloticus), write Reuven Godel, Reshafim Fish Farm, Amitay Geva, Mini…

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 intensive in both fresh and brackish water in Asia including Ban…

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 2008; Jones 2012; Lightner 2012; Reantaso 2012). In this study I …

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.

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 Auburn University and Michael Masser from Texas A&M University…

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.