Health & Welfare
A case for better shrimp nutrition
Shrimp farm performance can often be below realistic production standards. Use proven nutrition, feeds and feeding techniques to improve profitability.
Responsibility
Biofloc technology options for aquaculture
Biofloc technology offers advantages for the sustainable culture of shrimp and some species of fish.
Intelligence
Lobster aquaculture in eastern Indonesia, part 2
Although lobster farming is already established in Indonesia, improvements in feed and nutrition, and seed collection would help the industry expand. The diet of trash fish fed to developing lobsters generates waste and is not conducive to good hygiene or growth.
Health & Welfare
Spiny lobster aquaculture
Spiny lobsters have a long, complex life cycle. Growing them through larval stages is a particular challenge. Spiny lobster culture is currently centered in Vietnam, where the industry depends on wild-caught animals for stocking and trash fish for feeding.
Aquafeeds
Spotted sea trout studies identify nutrition requirements, benefit of exercise
The authors performed nutrition studies to determine a maximized efficiency of yield in spotted sea trout. Fry were “forced” to swim against a steady current to gauge the effectiveness of increased exercise.
Health & Welfare
How to prepare and interpret blood smears
A significant part of any hematological evaluation of fish is the preparation, microscopic examination and interpretation of stained blood smears.
Health & Welfare
UNC-Wilmington conducts research on black sea bass
Studies at UNC-Wilmington found that growth and survival of black sea bass larvae were improved through supplementation of DHA and ARA in live feed.
Health & Welfare
Nutrition and genes research at Virginia Tech
Transcriptomics studies highlight impacts of different treatments on specific genes that can be targeted via nutritional intervention to increase farmed animal performance or welfare.