Aquaculture Technical Articles
Article published the December 14, 2017:
1. Introduction
Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic organisms, has been the agroindustrial activity with the highest growth rate worldwide in the last four decades. From 1970 to 2008 the production of ...
Article published the November 9, 2017:
Introduction
Aquaponics is a combination of both hydroponics and aquaculture. Marine aquaponics system applies this technology to marine aquatic organisms and plants that can be grown in sea water systems. Aqu...
Article published the September 14, 2017:
Introduction
Cyanobacteria, blue-green algae, harmful algae, and toxic algae are words that can confuse people who are trying to decide on pond water safety. Certain algae can cause serious problems when they ...
Article published the July 27, 2017:
The Vibrio bacteria in shrimp: how a common pathogen in shrimp farming became the leading character in the EMS story.
During the past year, evidence has accumulated on how the ongoing outbreak of early mortali...
Article published the July 20, 2017:
Introduction
Egyptian aquaculture has grown rapidly, with annual production reaching 705,000 tons in 2009 – up from 57,000 tons in 1994. Per capita consumption of fish in Egypt rose from8.5 kg to 15.4 ...
Article published the July 14, 2017:
A phytobiotic was able to reduce Vibrio counts in intestine and hepatopancreas leading to an increase in survival and better health.
Shrimp farming is growing very fast in recent years, due to the high pr...
Article published the June 9, 2017:
The efficacy of Bacillus probiotics in disease prevention and increasing yields.
Bangladesh has about 5 million ha of inland water resources such as rivers, estuaries, natural and manmade reservoirs, ponds and...
Article published the June 9, 2017:
1. Introduction
Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) production has been growing exponentially for the last 50 years in Europe and Chile, the latter being the largest producer [1]. In Argentina, commercial aqu...
Article published the May 18, 2017:
Seaweed cultivation is well established in Asia and needs little explanation/justification. In the western world, a renewed interest in seaweed mariculture has been triggered by their cultivation in i...
Article published the May 4, 2017:
At the University of New Brunswick in Canada, researchers have developed a pilot-scale aquaponics system to select plants that are best adapted to efficiently recapture nutrients from salmon hatchery effluents....