Aquaculture Technical Articles
Article published the October 4, 2018:
Introduction
Carp is one of a few species of freshwater fish that can be considered as domesticated, but there is a considerable difference between the domesticated population and its wild relation with respec...
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...
Article published the September 4, 2018:
Introduction
Aquaculture has become the fastest growing food-producing industry around the world; however, the production efficiency of aquaculture could be further increased through the development of nutriti...
Article published the September 4, 2018:
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 September 3, 2018:
1. Introduction
Aquaculture contributes about 74% of the total fish production in Egypt [1]. Egypt is an arid country that has a negative water balance. Its annual water supply from the Nile, rainfall along th...
Article published the September 3, 2018:
Water quality is determined by some variables like temperature, transparency, turbidity, water colour, carbon dioxide, pH, alkalinity, hardness, unionized ammonia (NH3), nitrite and nitrate (Saeed, 2013; Saeed ...
Article published the August 22, 2018:
First published at the 18th ISFNF conference (International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding), in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, from 3rd to 7th June 2018.
Introduction:
Global production of fa...
Article published the August 21, 2018:
Pathogenic agents that cause economic impacts in aquaculture are from bacterial, viral, fungal and/or parasitic origin. In fact, the combination of one or more of these pathogens is the most common cause of d...
Article published the July 27, 2018:
Feeds and feeding systems at Chambo Fisheries in Africa
Mozambique tilapia (O. mossambicus, left) and Shiranus tilapia (O. shiranus, right) at Chambo Fisheries.
(Editor’s note: This is part 2 of...
Article published the July 27, 2018:
Comparative economics and environmental performance vs. conventional grow-out systems
Harvesting tilapia from cages in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.
Biofloc technology (BFT) promises to revolutionize tilap...