Freshwater fish

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.

Viet Nam is an amazing country, in theory Communist, but where free enterprise flourishes, writes Suart Lumb for TheFishSite.

Researchers from the Department of Environmental Management at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Viet Nam, look at methods to improve tilapia cage farming in Tien Giang, Viet Nam.

KENYA - Arror River integrated multi-purpose project, which is earmarked to kick-off in earnest in Elgeyo Marakwet County, is an ambitious project which is geared towards transforming Kerio Valley region to a food basket once it is implemented and completed.

The majority of foodsize-fish operations (81.9 per cent) raised unspecified lines of channel catfish. More than one-fifth of operations (21.2 per cent) raised channel multiplied by blue hybrid catfish.

In May 2011 the Cefas Fish Health Inspectorate(FHI), working in conjunction with colleaguesfrom the Environment Agency (EA),investigated a large scale mortality of commoncarp at Crockwell Farm Fishery, Eydon, Northamptonshire.

A new catfish disease, caused bya previously unseen strain of the Aeromonas hydrophilabacteria, appeared in Alabama in the summer of 2009. Andy Goodwin, Professor/ Associate Director of Fish Health at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, gives an update on t…

High ingredient prices in 2008 led feed mills to begin to manufacture new, less expensive feed formulationsuntested under commercial catfish farming conditions. New feed formulations have been tested at University of Arkansas Pine Bluff for the past three year…

Based at Lake Baringo, Kenya, Omega Farms is in its early days. Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite Editor speaks to Director Mark Archer, about the Omega Farm project and increasing the supply of tilapia fingerlings in Kenya.

Researchers from Kentucky State University and the Aquaculture Research Centre look at the use of soybean and yeast meal as an alternative feed for tilapia.

Better Management Practices for Catfish Aquaculture Version 3.0 was released at a national workshop in Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province, Viet Nam on 24 November, reports the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific.

Biologists with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently stocked Spring Bayou with 5,000 triploid grass carp as part of a continued effort to help control unwanted aquatic vegetation.

William Wurts from Kentucky State University looks at sustainable small-scale catfish farming.

High ingredient prices in 2008 led feed mills to begin manufacturing new, less expensive feed formulations untested under commercial catfish farming conditions. New feed formulations have been tested at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff (UAPB) for the past…

Often producers find that at pond draining there are significantly fewer fish than there were at stocking time. Karen Veverica from the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures at theInternational Centre for Aquaculture and Aquatic Environments in the U…

Commercial Malaysian aquaculture began in the 1980s. In the last five years the aquaculture sector has recorded an annual growth rate of about 10 per cent.

Catfish research at Mississippi State University is no surprise given that Mississippi leads the nation in catfish production, but the potential applications of that research through the College of Veterinary Medicines fish hatchery are another story.

Much of Brazils expanding tilapia aquaculture takes place in floating cages with sturdy frames and nets made from plastic-coated steel or polypropylene. This study by Alberto J. P. Nunes, from the Instituto de Cincias do Mar Labomar, looks at tilpia cage farm …

With pangasius imports growing in Central and South American production areas, one response is to introduce the fish as a new aquaculture species, writes Michael V. McGee from Caribe Fisheries Inc. for the Global Aquaculture Advocate.

The availability of quality seed is prerequisite for rapidexpansion and growth of aquaculture. However, uncertaintyin timely seed supply is one of the major constraints, says Mr Radheyshyam at the Aquaculture Production and Environment Division, Central Instit…

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming striped catfish.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Nile tilapia.

The global aquaculture industry currently accounts for over 45 per cent of all seafood consumed. That figure has been projected to increase to 75 per cent over the next 20 years. Are probiotics necessary to achieve this? Abdel Hamid Eid and K Mohamed from Suaz…

A full set of global standards for sustainable aquaculture will be established by the end of the year, writes TheFishSite senior editor, Chris Harris.