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They may not be beauty queens, but channel catfish are worth a pretty penny. In fact, farm-level sales of catfish brought in over $400 million in 2008, making them the most popular farmed fish in the United States, says the USDA Agricultural Research Service i…

Catfish (Pangasiushy pothalamus) have become increasingly attractive for the food industry. Farmers are looking for the possibilities to increase the cat fish performance. The influence of acidifiers on the fish performance was tested in several studies.

Early this year it was reported that Viet Nam had become the world's eighth largest seafood exporter, but behind these tidy headlines lies a mish-mash of inter-related management and environmental issues. In these topsy-turvy financial times will the Vietnames…

Continuous advancements in the science of aquaculture has enabled farmers to produce ever greater varieties of fish. But whilst this allows industries to meet consumer demands, an unquenchable desire for large carnivorous fish is not sustainable, writes Adam A…

Disease is one of the most important limiting factors in aquaculture. Optimal husbandry and general management - including biosecurity, nutrition, genetics, system management and water quality - are critical for maximizing aquatic animal health, writes Roy P. …

Channel catfish are native to flowing waters in temperate environments within North America, including southern Canada and northern Mexico. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations explains how the different systems of catfish production wor…

Mangroves are essentially a tropical group of salt tolerant plants that occupy the inter-tidal zone of sheltered coasts around estuaries and lagoons, writes Simon Wilkinson for the Network of Aquaculture Centres Asia-Pacific.

Viet Nam exported nearly 550 000 tonnes of tra and basa pangasius (commonly called pangasius) in the first ten months of 2008, for a value of USD 1.24 billion, says this FAO Globefish report.

The island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, is recognized by the government of Indonesia as a major area for development of mariculture, reports La Ode M. Aslan, Hotman Hutauruk, Armen Zulham, Irwan Effendy, Mhummaed Atid, Michael Phillips, Lars Olsen, Brendan Larkin, …

Statistical data indicate that common carp production may have come close to its limit. However, common carp will remain an important species in those areas where it is produced traditionally. The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department explains how this fish…

Vietnam is the largest exporter of Pangasius to the EU, and the countrys growers have been set a target of $1.5 billion in export turnover for 2008, reveals a Food and Agriculture Globefish report prepared by Nick Holmyard.

Increasing consumer awareness to unsustainable aquaculture practices have made the prospect of organic aquaculture both environmentally and economically fruitful, but strict standards make this goal difficult to achieve. As the US considers by-passing this obs…

As well asbeing a farm thatproduces fish forfood, Aranyponty- in Magyar, theGolden Carp -communicatesthe importance ofmanaging Europeswetland heritageto society, bydiverse social andeducational activities, says a report in the CONSENSUS brochure: 'Towards Sust…

This article has been prepared as a practical guide-line to help small to medium size marine cage farmers within the Asia-Pacific region cope with common external parasites, write Neil Wendover and Cedric Komar, Intervet Norbio Singapore.

By Helga Josupeit, FAO, Globefish, INFOFISH Tilapia Conference, Kuala Lumpur, August 2007. World tilapia production has been booming during the last decade, with output doubling from 830000 tonnes in 1990 to 1.6 million tonnes in 1999 and over 2.5 million tonn…

By Edwin H. Robinson and Menghe H. Li.

By Helga Josupeit, FAO Globefish. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 28.6.2007 announced it is blocking the import from China of five species of seafood namely catfish, eel, shrimp, basa and dace until their importers can prove they are not contamina…

By Dr. Cedric Komar and Neil Wendover (Intervet Norbio Singapore) In the last three issues of the Intervet Aquatic Animal Health Newsletter, we presented a series of articles on tilapia diseases.

By Edwin H. Robinson, Research Professor and Menghe H. Li, Research Professor, Delta Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University.

By Charles C. Mischke, Mississippi State University; Joseph E. Morris Iowa State University and Ryan L. Lane, Southern Illinois University. Published by Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC).