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Nutrient recycling and circular economies can support sustainable intensification of aquaculture, part 1
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/nutrient-recycling-and-circular-economies-can-support-sustainable-intensification-of-aquaculture-part-1/Quantifying major wastes and byproducts from aquaculture across a full range of production types This study reviews the major wastewater constituents from effluents of different aquaculture systems to highlight potential…
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Optimizing crucial cost centers for shrimp feed manufacturing
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/optimizing-crucial-cost-centers-for-shrimp-feed-manufacturing/…the manufacture of quality shrimp aquafeeds. Photo by Darryl Jory. Grinding cost center Once the pre-blended mix reaches the grinding cost center, the process is now owned by the mill…
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Green macroalgae aquaculture and its underexploited potential
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/green-macroalgae-aquaculture-and-its-underexploited-potential/…group of macroalgae in aquaculture. https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/can-sustainable-mariculture-match-agricultures-output/ Cultivation methods A variety of technological approaches are currently employed in the commercial-scale aquaculture of green macroalgae. Different phases of the production chain (propagule…
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Fisheries and aquaculture: Sister activities with a common goal
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/fisheries-and-aquaculture-sister-activities-with-a-common-goal/…interested in change. Because aquaculture is change. Advantages and differences Aquaculture has many advantages compared to fisheries regarding global markets. Aquaculture can produce more, steady, predictable amounts of products, with…
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Norwegian salmon smolt farms embracing RAS to raise production
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/norwegian-salmon-smolt-farms-embracing-ras-to-raise-production/…future, Norwegian smolt farmers need to address more intensive types of water treatment technologies, such as recirculating aquaculture systems that include biofilters for ammonia removal. Moving-bed biofilters and similar systems…
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CSIRO research evaluates technologies to produce genetically protected, all-female shrimp
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/csiro-research-evaluates-technologies-produce-genetically-protected-all-female-shrimp/…can work toward developing commercial technologies to produce genetically protected, all-female shrimp. (Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the January/February 2008 print edition of the Global Aquaculture Advocate.)…
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10 takeaways from GOAL 2019 in Chennai, India
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/10-takeaways-from-goal-2019-in-chennai-india/…aquaculture “casino” in the 1990s, and those who never heard of aquaculture. “We now track about 1,500 companies. We do a lot of work to get companies from outside aquaculture…
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Data-driven management technology can transform aquaculture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/data-driven-management-technology-can-transform-aquaculture/…at the very moment they perform their assigned tasks. Today we have technologies that make this possible and accessible to even small family businesses through the use of cloud technologies…
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Lockwood: U.S. organic aquaculture standards need urgent action
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/u-s-organic-aquaculture-standards-need-urgent-action/…country; state aquaculture coordinators; the aquaculture press and others. Aquaculture scientists who are federal and state government employees, and grant beneficiaries of federal aquaculture programs, are urged to write as…
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A helping hand to lend: UK aquaculture seeks to broaden its horizons
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/a-helping-hand-to-lend-uk-aquaculture-seeks-to-broaden-its-horizons/…of aquatic resources and development with the Sustainable Aquaculture Group at the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling. With 76 percent of global aquaculture production taking place in Asia, the…
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Waddell Mariculture Center continues research on biofloc-based shrimp culture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/waddell-mariculture-center-continues-research-biofloc-based-shrimp-culture/Systems can be sited near major urban markets Waddell Mariculture Center has been developing protocols for the commercial grow-out of shrimp in greenhouse-enclosed, minimal-exchange biofloc raceway systems. In recent years,…
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For Great Lakes aquaculture, it’s a tale of two countries
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/great-lakes-aquaculture-tale-two-countries/…Club’s Michigan chapter. “We aren’t opposed to all aquaculture across the board, but we do have grave concerns about aquaculture facilities that are hydrologically connected to wild fisheries, especially through…
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Opinion: Stop offshoring offshore aquaculture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/stop-offshoring-offshore-aquaculture/…project from National Science Foundation, Illinois Soybean Board, and International Copper Association. Marine aquaculture could be a shining example of American exceptionalism … except … “offshore” aquaculture has been largely…
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Aquaculture Exchange: George S. Lockwood
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/lockwood/Pioneer abalone farmer and author goes in depth on the future of aquaculture in the United States George S. Lockwood If you believe the United States should commit to aquaculture…
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New policies, initiatives could advance U.S. aquaculture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/new-policies-initiatives-could-advance-u-s-aquaculture/…and Agriculture, which suggest that Americans should eat seafood twice a week. Aquaculture policies not new The creation of aquaculture policies is nothing new. The U.S. Congress, through the Aquaculture…
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Identifying global opportunities for shellfish, seaweed aquaculture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/identifying-global-opportunities-for-shellfish-seaweed-aquaculture/…aquaculture to provide environmental and socioeconomic benefits. Fig. 1: High (green) to low (red) opportunity marine ecoregions for development of (A) shellfish aquaculture and (B) seaweed aquaculture based on the…
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Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy, or aPDT, for potential management of pathogenic bacteria in aquaculture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/antimicrobial-photodynamic-therapy-or-apdt-for-potential-management-of-pathogenic-bacteria-in-aquaculture/…Photo by Darryl Jory. Alternative technologies are needed for controlling pathogenic infections in cultured fish, and Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy (aPDT) has recently emerged as one of the technologies that can…
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Aquaculture Exchange: Ron Stotish, AquaBounty Technologies
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/aquaculture-exchange-ron-stotish-aquabounty-technologies/‘Biotechnology presents the opportunity to improve the quality of life, the security of food and almost every aspect of our lives’ AquaBounty Technologies CEO Ron Stotish Ron Stotish is swamped….