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Environmental trigger for EMS/AHPNS identified in Agrobest shrimp ponds
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/environmental-trigger-for-ems-ahpns-identified-in-agrobest-shrimp-ponds/…infected shrimp exhibited abnormal behavior that led to cannibalism by non-infected shrimp, despite the presence of pelleted feeds in the aquaria. Once the cannibalism began, the mortality of non-infected shrimp…
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Brunei project develops technology for large black tiger shrimp production, part 1
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/brunei-project-develops-technology-for-large-black-tiger-shrimp-production-part-1/…market size in aerated ponds with formulated feeds. This led to a fast-growing business, and Taiwan became the center of shrimp-farming technology in the Asian region. Black tiger shrimp are…
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Post-harvest quality of freshwater prawns, part 1
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/post-harvest-quality-of-freshwater-prawns-part-1/…Purging did help improve the appearance slightly. Storage, shelf life Various storage studies have been performed on fresh shrimp. Mean texture scores for whole shrimp indicated the shrimp muscle maintained…
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What happens to feed in aquaculture systems?
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/aquaculture-effluent/…feeding and mechanical aeration has increased production many times above that possible in fertilized ponds. Feeds cannot be converted entirely to fish or shrimp biomass, and the waste from feeding…
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Genetic selection can increase feed efficiency of salmon
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/genetic-selection-can-increase-feed-efficiency-of-salmon/…in situations with limited feed resources. Greater efficiency can be obtained through improved feeds and production management, but also through direct or indirect genetic selection for increased feed utilization. Direct…
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Effects of combining two exogenous carbohydrases on growth of Nile tilapia
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/effects-of-combining-two-exogenous-carbohydrases-on-growth-of-nile-tilapia/Dietary blend improves juveniles’ weight gain, feed efficiency and increase body energy deposition, mineral retention This study showed that the addition of the exogenous, liquid carbohydrase xylanase and β-glucanase (XB)…
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Building a better shrimp nursery, part 1
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/building-better-shrimp-nursery-part-1/…considerations. Parts 2 and 3 will discuss water quality, biofloc technology, and feeds and feed management for these nursery systems. Hyper-intensive nursery systems for juvenile shrimp production have been used…
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Yellow tail characin a candidate for expanded production
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/yellow-tail-characin-a-candidate-for-expanded-production/Assessing the potential of the Brazilian freshwater sardine The Brazilian freshwater fish fauna is well known because of its great species biodiversity and the many species with aquaculture potential. Recently,…
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Determining safe levels of ammonia and nitrite for shrimp culture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/determining-safe-levels-of-ammonia-and-nitrite-for-shrimp-culture/…Brazil. Brazil has many native aquatic species with significant potential for aquaculture production. However, most of them are rather largely unexplored scientifically and technologically. The Amazon river prawn (Macrobrachium…
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Aquafeed ingredient AlgaPrime wins GAA Innovation Award
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/aquafeed-ingredient-algaprime-wins-gaa-innovation-award/…the feeds sector. A proliferation of alternative feed ingredients – from agriculture, from algae, from insects and from microbiology – has allowed the aquaculture industry, the world’s biggest consumer of…
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Seafood demand and aquaculture growth
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/seafood-demand-aquaculture-growth/…with the level of economic development. The first group, which accounted for countries in which aquaculture represented around 50 percent of total seafood supply, included Brazil, India, Indonesia, Thailand and…
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Mariculture projects in Rio de Janeiro
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/mariculture-iin-rio-de-janeiro-brazil/…which complicated facility management. As a result, some juvenile cobia were cultured in combination with the grouper to stimulate feeding behavior. This led to higher feed intake and better growth…
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What Is An Aquaculture Innovation?
https://www.globalseafood.org/blog/what-is-an-aquaculture-innovation/…is as diverse as the industry itself, as its five recipients represent four different products (aquafeed, Atlantic salmon, Pacific white shrimp and freshwater shrimp) and five different countries (United States,…
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Governments and seafood consumption, part 2
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/governments-and-seafood-consumption-part-2/…with the fish seasons on it were distributed. Fish week in Brazil The Brazilian Association of Supermarkets and the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Brazil have been collaborating to…
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Animal protein meals reduce feed costs but don’t improve shrimp performance
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/animal-protein-meals-reduce-feed-costs-dont-improve-shrimp-performance/…formulated chemical profiles of diets. The shrimp diets were prepared using a laboratory extruder equipped with a 1.8-mm die. Shrimp were fed twice daily to excess using feeding trays. Five…
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Aquaculture insurance and reinsurance
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/aquaculture-insurance-reinsurance/…solutions are most commonly provided – especially in emerging markets like Brazil. Emerging markets With vast shrimp farms and tilapia bred behind dams built for huge livestock herds, Brazil’s fish…
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Cobia aquaculture expanding in Americas, Caribbean
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/cobia-aquaculture-expanding-in-americas-caribbean/…shrimp hatchery to produce cobia fingerlings in 2007. A similar approach is being used by Ocean Farm in Ecuador, which adapted a large shrimp hatchery for the production of marine…
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Pacific white shrimp nursery trials in seawater and low-salinity water utilizing a synbiotic system
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/pacific-white-shrimp-nursery-trials-in-seawater-and-low-salinity-water-utilizing-a-synbiotic-system/…units (40 and 60-L of useful volume). The PL were fed with a commercial shrimp feed (45 percent crude protein and 9.5 percent lipids) four times a day. The feeding…