Aquaculture Technical Articles
Article published the February 28, 2019:
Spirulina Arthrospira is a planktonic blue-green algae (Cyanobacteria) found in warm water alkaline volcanic lakes and is rich in raw protein and seven major vitamins: A1, B1, B2, B6, B12 (one of the best natur...
Article published the February 27, 2019:
Introduction
Global aquaculture production has been steadily increasing over the last decade. Asian countries like Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and India have emerged as global leaders in shrimp production. In...
Article published the February 27, 2019:
Nutrition of shrimp is an important consideration in health management of cultured vannamei shrimp. The extensive to semi-intensive and intensive farming of shrimp demands nutritionally complete feeds for succe...
Article published the January 15, 2019:
All the intestinal tracts of healthy aquatic animal contain lactic acid bacteria and other probiotics to assist with body function and immune growth. The intestinal tract is the body’s biggest immune orga...
Article published the January 2, 2019:
Introduction
Farmers are considered to be the feeders of any nation. Indian farmers are not apart from them, they work days and nights to create bread and butter for human as well as for feeding animals too. F...
Article published the December 6, 2018:
The feed additives have the major role to improve feed efficiency and more important to make low Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) in aquaculture production. Feed additives may be both nutritive and non-nutritive ing...
Article published the December 6, 2018:
Sludge formation in pond bottom
In the intensive shrimp culture ponds are heavily aerated and it is common practice to position aerators in the comers of ponds to create a circular motion of water.&...
Article published the November 5, 2018:
Integrated Farming System (IFS) is an interdependent, interrelated often interlocking production systems based on few crops, animals and related subsidiary enterprises in such a way that maximize the utilizatio...
Article published the October 8, 2018:
Summary
Shrimp performed equally well on diets containing 16% fish meal (FM) or 8% fish meal supplemented with AQUAVI® Met-Met (0.03-0.10%).
Retention efficiencies of protein and amino acids improved si...
Article published the October 4, 2018:
In commercial aquaculture, the cost of feed is the main problem as it constitutes up to 60% of the total cost of production1. Hence, many researchers examined the use of substitute protein and lipid s...