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By Intervet - Vaccination is becoming an increasinglyimportant part of aquaculture. Several bacterial and viral vaccines have been successfully developed and commercialised, and have proven their cost-effectiveness.

Michael McGee and Charles Cichra review some of the most important considerations relating to fingerling purchasing, transporting, and stocking.

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By Edwin H. Robinson, Menghe H. Li, and Bruce B. Manning, Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center and published by the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station - This is the 2nd revision of this report on the status of catfish nutriti…

By the Fish Vet Group - Histopathology describes the study of disease and disease processes by the microscopical examination of very thin section of preserved, stained tissues. The actual preparation of stained slides is a highly skilled procedure requiring ex…

By Cefas - This report looks at the clinical signs of Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia and provides a status update on the recent outbreak in North Yorkshire.

By Intervet - Pancreas disease (PD) of Atlantic salmon was first recognised in Scotland, followed by Ireland and then Norway. This short series of Agenda articles will cover; 1. A description of PD (Agenda No. 5), 2. The diagnosis of PD (Agenda No. 6) and 3. C…

By the Mississippi State University - This handbook gives the basic information new catfish farmers need to get through their first production season with minimum problems.

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 Pilar Hernndez Serrano, Central University of Venezuela and published by the FAO - This work focuses on antibiotics misuse and the concomitant threat of resistance development, considering this topic to be a public health concern that affects thepopulation …

By Mississippi State University - Since feed is the most expensive part of catfish production, feeding a nutritious feed that converts efficiently and promotesgrowth without hurting water quality should increase production and profit.

By David Cox, the Fish Vet Group - So what's in a name? Quite a lot I would possibly say. Take for example the latest "syndrome" to appear from Norway namely Heart Skeletal Muscle Inflammation (HSMI for short -thank goodness for abbreviations). The key questio…

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By the Farm Animal Welfare Council - This article is part of a report on labelling in relation to the welfare provenance of livestock products. This Report concentrates on the purpose and nature of labelling and its justification, whether such labelling should…

By the OIE - This article by the Office International Des Epizooties is a factsheet on the highly infectious VHS disease.

By the USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - Italian fish catch is decreasing with stricter regulations on fishing and a shrinking fleet. Aquaculture and freshwater fishing partly compensate for this reduction. Italy's fishery sector will benefit from approxima…

Tilapia is native to Africa and the Middle East. A decade ago, few people knew much about tilapia. Today, it has emerged to become the second biggest aquatic species group after the carp group, with a worldwide harvest of over 2 million metric tons (MT), about…

By Siddhartha Dasgupta, Kentucky State University and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - Freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farming in the United States has been predominantly a small-…

By Fiskeriforskning - Analyses done by Fiskeriforskning show that the use of natural antioxidants in fish oil and fishmeal works almost as good as the synthetic ones that are being used by feed manufacturers today.

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

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

By Jeffrey M. Hinshaw, Lindsay E. Rogers and James E. Easley, North Carolina State University and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service.

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.

By Katheleen F. Ladewig and Michelle Morat and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - The rainbow trout has always been known as a great sport fish. But, in recent times, along with its sport connot…

By the Mississippi State University - Todays catfish producer feeds a nutritionallycomplete diet that has all the necessary nutrients at the right levels and the energy the fish need in a water-stable, readily digestible form. Producers must feed this kind of …

By the Fish Vet Group - Quality features a great deal in fish farming. Whether referring to water quality, environmental quality, flesh quality, total quality management systems or quality assurance schemes, you can't be involved in any aspect of current fish …

By Whit Gibbons and published by the University of Georgia - "A catfish monoculture is not sustainable because it consumes more resources than it produces." For someone who raises catfish to make such a statement might sound ironic or even contradictory to som…

By Craig Tucker, Mississippi State University and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - Fish, like all animals, must obtain oxygen from the environment for respiration. Oxygen is far less available…

By Intervet - Most of us take going for a flu, chickenpox or tetanus shot for granted. Vaccines are for people,right? Wrong, vaccines are also of vital importance in the animal healthcare world, and no more so than in aquaculture. Brian Guest looks at how mark…

By Fiskeriforskning - Statkraft is focusing on tidal power and is planning a floating plant in Kvalsundet Strait outside Troms. Can such a power plant affect fish farms and the local fish population?

By Bruce L. Nicholson, Professor of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, the University of Maine - Infectious diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites are a primary concern in aquaculture. Indeed, effective control of infectious diseases…

By Sintef - Land-based aquaculture systems release water with high values of nutrients. Marine algae use most of these to produce biomass. This principle can be used to clean the water using chosen arts of algae and macro-algea in the effluent.

By David Cox, Fish Vet Group - Year on year IPNV is becoming more and more of a problem with significant losses in fresh and seawater. Quite why this is the case is puzzling and I'll put forward some of my thoughts on possible reasons at the end of this articl…

By Intervet - Chorulon is a purified, sterile and highly effective preparation of chorionic gonadotrophin, which has been routinely used for nearly two decades to induce and synchronize the ovulation andspawning of various cultured fish species.

By U.S.D.A., Economic Research Service - This article is an extract from the March 2006: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook Report, highlighting Global Aquaculture Industry data.