The Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES) and Delta Western Research Centre (DWRC) have collaborated on catfish nutrition research for two decades with the primary goal of reducing catfish production cost by developing cost-efficient…
New Zealands involvement in an international project aimed at reviving the Danish mussel industry will help keep New Zealand at the forefront of world aquaculture development, say NIWA scientists Drs Craig Stevens and David Plew, writing for NZ Aquaculture.
China's aquatic production in 2012 is forecast at 55.3 million metric ton (MMT), up more than one percent over from 2011. The aquaculture sector is expected to continue growing, albeit somewhat slower, in response to growing domestic consumption, a robust proc…
Gary Jenson, National Programme Leader at the USDA, gives some facts andpersonal perspectives regarding theimpact of public (Federal and state)spending cuts in aquaculture R&Dbudgets that have occurred recentlyand are likely to become moredramatic in the n…
In an effort to find new markets for the Gulf Coast oyster industry, Subramaniam Sathivel, associate professor of food engineering in the LSU AgCenters Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Department of Food Science, investigates the devel…
With outbreaks of Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis (AVG) in Tasmania, the New South Wales government (Australia) has implemented a temporary suspension on imports of live abalone from Tasmania. TheFishSite.com looks at what the disease is and how the disease is b…
An ambitious project aims to train over 800 smallholders a year in sustainable aquaculture, with the long term aim of reducing poverty in the South Rachounyo District of Homa Bay County of Kenya. Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor reports.
