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GOAL 2018: PechaKucha, featuring Matthew Thompson
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/goal-2018-pechakucha-featuring-matthew-thompson/…Each speaker was asked to speak about “building confidence in aquaculture.” This week’s speaker is Matthew Thompson, aquaculture project lead at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at New…
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Cobia aquaculture expanding in Americas, Caribbean
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/cobia-aquaculture-expanding-in-americas-caribbean/…a partnership between the Brazilian private sector and government. Similar cooperative agreements have been signed with Ecuador’s National Center for Aquaculture and Marine Research (CENAIM-ESPOL) and Colombia’s Center for Aquaculture…
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Marine, brackishwater finfish culture in Indonesia
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/marine-brackishwater-finfish-culture-indonesia/…directorate general of aquaculture within the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. BADC Ujung Batee functions as a seed production center for milkfish and grouper. It also provides technical support…
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Seize the Health Benefits of Seafood!
https://www.globalseafood.org/blog/benefits-seafood-heart-health-month/Editor’s note: The following is a guest blog post by Sherri Clerk, MBA, RD, the brand manager for the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification program. Sherri is also a Registered…
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Airlifts combine pumping, water treatment in recirculation systems
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/airlifts-combine-pumping-water-treatment-recirculation-systems/…technology with treatment processes for aeration, suspended and dissolved solids, nitrogenous wastes and carbon dioxide removal. Recirculating aquaculture is energy-intensive, because water must move continuously through the system to remove…
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Snail control in fish ponds
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/snail-control-in-fish-ponds/…fish and avian hosts, this trematode relies on snails within aquaculture ponds to complete its complex life cycle. With few legal options for preventing bird access to large aquaculture ponds,…
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SCP comparable to hydrogen peroxide as catfish egg disinfectant
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/scp-comparable-to-hydrogen-peroxide-as-catfish-egg-disinfectant/…alternative to formalin as an egg disinfectant. Studies conducted at the Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center in Stoneville, Mississippi, USA, from 2001 to 2003 demonstrated that when administered as…
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Replacing dietary fish oil with palm oil in Nile tilapia
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/replacing-dietary-fish-oil-with-palm-oil-nile-tilapia/…industry. Vegetable oils are potential and suitable candidates to replace fish oils in aquaculture feeds because they have considerable production, acceptable prices, relatively low organic contaminant standing and relatively high…
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Genetic improvement in Brazil
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/genetic-improvement-in-brazil/…and survival in commercial production environments. New genetic improvement center In 2006, Aquatec discontinued its association with its parent company and created a new company, Genearch Aquacultura, to concentrate on…
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Collective marketing may help small-scale fish farmers grow in Africa
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/collective-marketing-may-help-small-scale-fish-farmers-grow-in-africa/…the WorldFish Center, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, and L’Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement de Cameroun (IRAD) with financial support from the United Kingdom Department for International Development….
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UNC-Wilmington conducts research on black sea bass
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/unc-wilmington-conducts-research-on-black-sea-bass/…not expected to meet increasing consumer demand. Partially in response to the need for diversification of the marine finfish aquaculture industry in the southeastern United States, research is under way…
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Walking catfish production in Thailand
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/walking-catfish-production-in-thailand/…for hatchery operators. One of these fisheries stations, Pathum Thani Fisheries Development Center, also pioneered techniques for mass production of the water flea (Moina macrocopa), an ideal starting live feed…
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Little fish in a big pond: Minnowtech aims to give fresh vision to shrimp inventory
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/little-fish-in-a-big-pond-minnowtech-aims-to-give-fresh-vision-to-shrimp-inventory/Baltimore-based startup’s software imaging platform seeks to provide shrimp producers greater farm-level insights Suzan Shahrestani, center, poses at a shrimp hatchery in Indonesia with the Hatch aquaculture business accelerator cohort…
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Octopus aquaculture – unethical or the next Big Thing?
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/octopus-aquaculture-unethical-or-the-next-big-thing/…to a private aquaculture research center in Spain. Mr. Ricardo Tur cultures octopus in the research department of the Pescanova Biomarine Center. “The production of O. vulgaris is in the…
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Pilot-scale recirculating rotifer culture system uses condensed microalgae
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/pilot-scale-recirculating-rotifer-culture-system-uses-condensed-microalgae/…Water from the culture tank was drained through a center stand pipe with a mesh screen into a sump tank, then pumped back to the culture tank at a rate…
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Fingerling production still bottleneck for cobia culture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/fingerling-production-still-bottleneck-for-cobia-culture/…of the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, Texas, and the Aquaculture Center of the Florida Keys, Inc. in Florida, USA. In all runs, fish…
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Quantitative, molecular genetic selection for shrimp disease resistance
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/quantitative-molecular-genetic-selection-for-shrimp-disease-resistance/…cages in the breeding center prior to individual tagging. Performance tests conducted in both the center and several commercial farms evaluated shrimp production traits such as growth rate and grow-out…
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Norwegian researchers develop sea lice tracking model
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/norwegian-researchers-develop-sea-lice-tracking-model/…showing total number of copepodids (the free-swimming larval stage of lice) added over the previous 10 days. This picture, taken at the Norwegian Aquaculture Center (Brønnøy, Norway), shows different life…