Aquaculture Technical Articles
Article published the September 20, 2021:
IntroductionShrimp farming is one of the most important aquaculture practices worldwide. In shrimp-farming operations, one of the primary wastes of concern is nitrogen. The built-up of nitrogenous waste in the ...
Article published the September 10, 2021:
1. IntroductionNigeria’s coastal waters fall within the Guinea Current Large Ecosystem (GCLME), a shared resource by all the coastal West African countries. The Nigeria coastal area is one of the world&rs...
Article published the September 10, 2021:
Water is an important resource for life support and undeniably, there is hardly any human activity without the use of water. The earth is occupied by water, of which 97% are saline in the oceans, while 3% is fr...
Article published the August 24, 2021:
Article published the August 23, 2021:
IntroductionSilver has been known for antibacterial activity since ancient times. The importance of silver has regained due to the increase of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, caused by their overuse. Silve...
Article published the August 23, 2021:
1. IntroductionIn Nigeria today, despite the significant investment in commercial agriculture by the government, aid agencies, multilateral organizations and individuals, livestock production has not succeeded ...
Article published the August 18, 2021:
INTRODUCTIONAmong the essential amino acids (AA), L-arginine (ARG) is one of the functional amino acids in animals. ARG is a nutritionally very important and essential AA for fish, and is considered the fourth ...
Article published the July 26, 2021:
IntroductionSilver has long been known to exhibit a strong toxic activity towards a wide range of microorganisms, for this reason silver based compounds have been extensively used in many bactericidal applicati...
Article published the July 7, 2021:
IntroductionThe fish nutrition has advanced with the expansion of aquaculture in order to achieve better performance rates. Thus, diets should provide all the nutrients and energy as a way to optimize the fish ...
Article published the June 30, 2021:
INTRODUCTIONAlgae are simple photosynthetic eukaryotes which owing to their colonization of the oceans are responsible for up to 50% of the planet’s atmospheric carbon fixation (1), secondary and primary ...