Aquaculture America 2017: Communication key to the future
This year’s Aquaculture America in San Antonio, Texas, provided significant learning and networking opportunities. It successfully brought together 14 U.S. aquaculture organizations and more than 1,600 participants from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Norwegian salmon smolt farms embracing RAS to raise production
Smolt production in Norwegian hatcheries will likely increase during the next decade to answer salmon grow-out needs. Farmers are converting existing flow-through systems to partially or fully incorporate recirculation technologies.
CSIRO research evaluates technologies to produce genetically protected, all-female shrimp
In Australia, CSIRO is investigating techniques to produce reproductively sterile, all-female shrimp populations through polyploidy, irradiation, or genetic engineering.
Nutrient recycling and circular economies can support sustainable intensification of aquaculture, part 1
With nutrient recycling, aquaculture can contribute sustainably toward the nutritional requirements of billions of people over the next century.
Waddell Mariculture Center continues research on biofloc-based shrimp culture
Waddell Mariculture Center operates a commercial-scale prototype raceway utilizing minimal water exchange and biofloc culture to develop protocols for the indoor growout of Pacific white shrimp.
Green macroalgae aquaculture and its underexploited potential
Analyzing diversity, potential of major macroalgae taxa, existing cultivation techniques, uses, regional importance and global production estimates.
Fisheries and aquaculture: Sister activities with a common goal
Aquaculture and fisheries – although significantly different as one is farming and the other one is hunting – are very closely related activities that share many components of their value chains, including their markets and customers.
Data-driven management technology can transform aquaculture
Aquaculture is a complex industry, but extensive knowledge of its varied facets exists. While the resources required for aquaculture face limitations, production efficiencies are improving. Today’s industry needs better information-based management strategies to increase its performance and sustainability.
10 takeaways from GOAL 2019 in Chennai, India
The Global Aquaculture Alliance held its GOAL conference in Chennai, India, and recruited a host of experts in various fields to share their expertise.
Entrepreneur Tony Fadell joins GOAL 2021 to talk technology and aquaculture
Former Apple and Google developer Tony Fadell told GOAL attendees that new technologies must smooth the pathway to the marketplace.
Lockwood: U.S. organic aquaculture standards need urgent action
Chair of Aquaculture Working Group advising the United States Department of Agriculture details the urgent need for organic aquaculture and the lack of progress on the development of official USDA standards for organic aquaculture.
A helping hand to lend: UK aquaculture seeks to broaden its horizons
Aquaculture is an essential contributor to the world food security challenge, and every stakeholder has a role to play in the sector’s evolution, delegates were told at the recent Aquaculture’s Global Outlook: Embracing Internationality seminar in Edinburgh, Scotland.
USDA marine aquaculture center breeds Atlantic salmon
The USDA marine aquaculture center is addressing genetic improvement of North American Atlantic salmon to develop improved lines for producers.
GenoMar opens ‘state-of-the-art’ tilapia breeding and genetics center in Brazil
GenoMar has opened a tilapia breeding and genetics center that could help transform Brazil into an exporter of high-quality tilapia genetics.
Aquaculture Exchange: Ron Stotish, AquaBounty Technologies
Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, discusses being the first to produce a genetically modified (GM) farmed salmon deemed safe for consumption, the controversy surrounding his company's product and the potential of biotechnology.
Emerging trends in salmonid RAS, part 2
Dozens of land-based, closed-containment salmonid RAS systems are coming on line. New projects are bringing new principles into the salmon industry. Industry expansion hinges upon the development of pollution-mitigating technologies to reduce nutrients in effluents.
Automated feeding systems in pond production of Pacific white shrimp
Results of this study show that automated feeding systems are significantly more efficient than hand feeding in shrimp production ponds and that increases in feed input, application of adaptive technology and training of people to maintain the feeding system must all be considered.
Bio-secure shrimp production: Emerging technologies for a maturing industry
With advanced bio-secure shrimp farming technologies, the industry will be able to expand with greater control against the spread of disease.