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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.

By Cheng Sheng-Lee, The Ocean Institute - A significant challenge to the expansion of aquaculture production is the outbreak of disease. Potential economic losses from disease outbreaks are significant, and can affect the survival of the industry.

By Fiskeriforskning - For a long time, vibriosis was the most serious bacterial disease in farmed cod, but now other diseases also result in significant mortality.

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

By the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service - This full-text annual report by NASS contains the number of trout operations, grower sales, and fish losses for selected states during 2004.

By Arild Kollevaag, Commercial Operations Dept., Intervet Norbio AS - In recent years, between 160 and 170 million salmon and rainbow trout have been vaccinated each year in Norway. The vast majority of these were vaccinated by injection (intraperitoneal) with…

By Pete Southgate, the Fish Vet Group - In the summer of 2005 many UK trout farmers experienced serious outbreaks of eye fluke infestation which resulted in severe pathology in affected fish and consequent losses. The eye fluke - frequently Diplostomum spathac…

By Gregory N. Whitis, Alabama Cooperative Extension System and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - To be profitable, an aquaculturepond must be sited properly and designed for efficiency. An inac…

By The Health And Safety Executive - This publication gives advice on the design, construction and safe use of floating fish farm installations including fish pens or cages, walkways, gangways, vehicle ways,land access ways, shelters and associated equipment.

Channel catfish are the most important species of aquatic animal commercially cultured in the United States. In this article – published on the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service – Thomas L. Wellborn from the Univ…

By Akvaforsk - Solveig van Nes of AKVAFORSK has found one of the key factors that influences the sexual development of halibut larvae. Since females grow significantly larger than males, farmers can now direct their production toward fewer males and higher pro…

By the USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - This report gives an overview of the current situation in the EU fishery sector, provides information on the EU's import policy and statistical data on EU fish catches, aquaculture,and imports and exports.

By Robert P. Romaire, W. Ray McClain, Mark G. Shirley and C. Greg Lutz, Louisiana State University and Published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - Most crawfish produced in the United States is sold to t…

By Jon Weldon and published by North Atlantic Fisheries College - The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) has been identified as a species with considerable potential for intensive farming in northern Europe and Canada.

By the European Commission - Concrete measures to improve the protection and welfare of animals over the next five years are outlined in a new Action Plan on the protection and welfare of animals, adopted by the Commission today. The Action Plan aims to ensure…

By Marley Beem, Oklahoma State University and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - The outlook for aquaculture in this country is bright. Health-conscious consumers are increasing their consumptio…

By C. Greg Lutz, Extension Aquaculture Specialist, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center - A review of aquaculture industry publications over the past decade might suggest that much of the expansion in global production has been attributable to high-p…

Crawfish Production: Harvesting - Robert P. Romaire, W. Ray McClain and C. Greg Lutz and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - Freshwater crawfish of the genus Procambarus are a valuable aquacultur…

By the Fish Vet Group - The spectre of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) is still lives with us and it and its ramifications will be around for some considerable time to come- no matter what "officaldom" may (or not) say. It may have left the front pages of newspap…

Louis R. DAbramo, Cortney L. Ohs, Terrill R. Hanson and Jose L. Montanez and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - Traditional pond culture of crawfish (Procambarus clarkii and P. zonangulus) is ex…