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This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming bighead carp.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming silver carp.

Science has progressed at an astonishing rate over the last ten years alone. Some of the most important developments in scientific breakthrough have been in the realm of agriculture, aquaculture, biotechnology, atmospheric & oceanic science.

This article from the University of Louisiana looks at the stocking of crawfish including species and size, stocking dates, habitat and handling.

Profitable operations for ethanol producers have encouraged increased ethanol output, raising prospects for higher corn use for ethanol in 2009/10, according to this month's Feed Outlook Report from USDA Economic Research Service.

This article from the Lousiana State University looks at crawfish forage management including monocropping and rotational cropping systems.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Eucheuma seaweed.

The use of phytobiotic feed additives in aquaculture has gained a steady increase since restrictions were implemented on the use of in-feed antibiotic growth promoters in the livestock industry. Due to increasing demand for high quality protein sources, we hav…

New EU-supported research in the Mediterranean Sea has assessed the impact of fish-farming on seafloor ecosystems.

New studies of cod genes show that as much as 75 per cent of marine proteins can be replaced by plant proteins in feed for farmed Atlantic cod without triggering stress genes.

Millions of tons of menhaden and other small fish are removed from the oceans each year to feed fish, poultry, and swine. However Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and Montana Microbial Products (MMP) of Butte, Montana, have developed a barley pro…

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Chinese river crab.

This report assesses the compliance, performance and effectiveness of the sea lice management programme in British Columbia, Canada. Summarised by Charlotte Johnston for TheFishSite.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax Linnaeus).

An unknown percentage of the fish we eat isn't what's it's purported to be the Food and Agriculture Organisation explores how forensic techniques could help address the problem.

Pond location, design and construction are the most important physical factors for successful crawfish production. Proper design and construction give the crawfish farmer better control over flooding, drainage, forage management, water circulation and harvesti…

Cui Lifeng, Deputy Director-General of the Bureau of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture gives a review on the fishery achievements in 2009. Summarised by TheFishSite junior editor Charlotte Johnston.

Critical scientific reviews were carried out on the geographical occurrences and host ranges of the listed diseases in Council Directive 2006/88/EC as amended by Commission Directive 2008/53/EC (de-listing of spring viraemia of carp), and an expert assessment …

The crawfish or 'crayfish' industry is continuing to grow in certain areas of the world. This article looks at production systems including equipment, monocropping and crop rotation systems.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming common carp (Cyprinidae).

Every year, large amounts of hatchery-raised young salmonids are released into Swedish rivers and streams to compensate for losses in natural production. However these fish rarely survive. The University of Gothenburg has discovered why: the young fish are too…

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus Valenciennes).

The crawfish or 'crayfish' industry is continuing to grow in certain areas of the world. This article looks at the life cycle, burrow requirements, molting and nutritional needs of two specific species - the red swamp crawfish and the white river crawfish.

Scientists at SINTEF have set themselves the goal of exploiting the advantages of a special type of zooplankton on a large scale called Copepods.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming American cupped oyster (Ostreidae).

Domestic changes this month are based in part on USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service's Crop Production 2009 Summary and January Grain Stocks reports, according to this month's Feed Outlook Report from USDA Economic Research Service. The report, sub…

Australian fisheries production has been decreasing since 2004, as have exports, whilst imports have been on the increase, according to the Australian commodity statistics for 2009, published by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Sum…

A Texas AgriLife Research scientist in Corpus Christi believes he has achieved a new world record in shrimp production using an environmentally friendly system with no water exchange throughout the growing cycle.

It's known that escaped fish from Norwegian salmon farms can interbreed with wild salmon, and thus must have changed the genetic and physical makeup of the country's famed wild salmon stocks, says the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Pacific cupped oyster (Crassostrea gigas).

Dominique P. Bureau, David J. Bevan, and C. Young Cho, from the Fish Nutrition Research Laboratory at the University og Guelph, look at how rationally predicting feed requirements could save money and prevent poor growth.

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing global climate change. In the coming decades, global average temperatures will increase, rainfall patterns will change, extreme weather events will become more severe, sea levels will rise…

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming mrigal carp (Cirrhinus mrigala).

Intensified aquaculture can lead to the emergence of disease in virtually all fish and shellfish species, according to Vaughn E. Ostland, PhD, Intrinsic LifeSciences, La Jolla, California, USA.

The latest figures released by the US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service show statistics on domestically grown catfish and US imports of salmon, tilapia and shrimp. Summarised by TheFishSite junior editor, Charlotte Johnston.

Many estuarine and coastal aquatic environments have been sinksfor industrial and agricultural effluents for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Michael Leaver and Stephen George from the University of Stirling, look at what effects this may have had on aqua…

Dr Gina Conroy, an aquaculture adviser and consultant to a number of large organisations, looks at the prevalence of streptococcus species in Latin America and their pathological manifestations.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming milkfish - from sourcing fry to marketing milkfish globally.

The use of corn to make starch, sweeteners, ethyl alcohol and other industrial products has accounted for most of the growth in China's corn use over the past decade, according to this month's Feed Outlook Report from USDA Economic Research Service. The report…

Marine capture fisheries already facing multiple challenges due to overfishing, habitat loss and weak management are poorly positioned to cope with new problems stemming from climate change, a new Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) study suggests.