Aquaculture Technical Articles
Article published the May 14, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
Benthic invertebrates are those animals which spend all or most of their life in, on or near the bottom of any aquatic habitat. Information about benthos is required for studies on productivity, f...
Article published the April 16, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
Hormones, antibiotics, ionophers and some salts compounds have been used as growth promoters and to some extent to prevent diseases. However, their inadequate applications show a negative effect o...
Article published the October 9, 2009:
World tilapia production has risen from 830,000 tonnes in 1990 to 1.6 million tonnes in 1999 and again to 2.5 million tonnes in 2005 (Josupeit, 2007). China is the world's largest producer of the tilapia, produ...
Article published the October 7, 2009:
Changes in ideas and product utilisation can yield significant survival and growth benefits for fish larvae. Combining nutritional and health strategies in rotifers and Artemia nauplii enhanced fish larvae grow...
Article published the June 29, 2009:
What is an antibiogram?
An antibiogram is a laboratory test used to determine the sensitivity pattern of a given microorganism to a range of antibiotics. The advantages of antibiogram use and the techniques in...
Article published the June 8, 2009:
What Is a Virus?
Viruses are very small infectious agents that multiply only within the living cells of an animal or plant host. Other microorganisms, such as bacteria or fungi, have organelles for their own m...
Article published the December 17, 2008:
Aquaculture is concerned with 'the propagation and rearing of aquatic organisms under complete human control involving manipulation of atleast one stage of an aquatic organism's life before harvest, in order to...
Article published the December 9, 2008:
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector globally and is established itself as high protein resource to fulfill the food demand since the natural resources exhibits over exploitation. But, presently,...
Article published the November 17, 2008:
One of the most common reasons for disease and mortality in land-based aquaculture in Australia, is due to problems with water quality. Water quality has a direct effect on the health of aquatic animals. Some o...
Article published the January 28, 2008:
Fungi are a group of organisms called heterotrophs that require living or dead matter for growth and reproduction. Unlike plants, they are incapable of manufacturing their own nutrients by photosynthesis. Fungi...