Aquaculture Technical Articles
Article published the April 24, 2019:
Key Information
Grass carp production is the largest finfish aquaculture industry in China, with an increasing volume of commercial feed production. This justifies the need to improve our understanding of th...
Article published the April 12, 2019:
Aquaculture is the most efficient and fastest growing source of animal protein for humans but its continued sustainability is of grave concern. The continued reliance on fishmeal to support the growth of aquacu...
Article published the March 20, 2019:
Introduction. Organic selenium (OSe) has an advantage in reducing oxidative stress in comparison to inorganic forms and incorporates into skeletal muscles, kidney, liver, and gastrointestinal mucosa proteins as...
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.&...