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Shrimp sampling method improves stocking process
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/shrimp-sampling-method-improves-stocking-process/…at an accurate estimate of shrimp weight, a statistics-based sequential sampling method is routinely used at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Mississippi, USA, and the Waddell Mariculture Center in…
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Genetic response to selection in channel catfish
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/genetic-response-selection-channel-catfish/…Aquaculture Center in Stoneville to improve economically important traits and benefit the U.S. catfish-farming industry. Released to the industry as the NWAC103 line in 2000, the superior-growing USDA103 line has…
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Forced convection: Improved cooking method for shrimp
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/forced-convection-improved-cooking-method-shrimp/…Conventional steam cookers operate by applying pure steam. They can overcook the exterior of the shrimp while waiting for the center to achieve desired temperature, and reduce product yield. Forced…
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Hyperthermia can boost innate immune system in juvenile fish
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/hyperthermia-boost-innate-immune-system-juvenile-fish/…in the center. On the right, after 10 minutes, all the juveniles have concentrated in the center of the tank, attracted to the hot water. Viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases…
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Evaluating soybean-based diets for cage-raised red drum
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/evaluating-soybean-based-diets-cage-raised-red-drum/…SBM and N-3010 (a commercial SP produced from non-GM, selectively bred soybean varieties). Red drum were obtained from the Sea Center Texas Marine Aquarium, Fish Hatchery and Nature Center operated…
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Genetic improvement of carp reduces poverty, hunger in Asia
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/genetic-improvement-carp-reduces-poverty-hunger-asia/…grant to the WorldFish Center to implement a project entitled “Achieving Greater Food Security and Eliminating Poverty by Dissemination of Improved Carp Strains to Fish Farmers. This constitutes the second…
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Aquaculture 2019: Triennial meeting examines global industry status
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/aquaculture-2019-triennial-meeting-examines-global-industry-status/…(left) and Robins Macintosh (center). Photo by Darryl Jory. Dr. Craig Browdy (Zeigler Aquaculture Research Center, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Pierce, Fla., USA) gave a comprehensive talk on shrimp health…
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Nutrition and genes research at Virginia Tech
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/nutrition-and-genes-research-at-virginia-tech/Scientists can develop elite feeds with positive effects on production economics and animal welfare Nutrigenomic research centers on how dietary ingredients influence gene expression and health. Application of various “-omic”…
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Freshwater farming in Papua New Guinea
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/freshwater-farming-in-papua-new-guinea/…recently started in which the government, NGOs, and farmers work together to set up fingerling distribution centers at key locations. The centers are supplied with fingerlings from the national hatchery…
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Low-salinity fish production technology can cut costs, aid biosecurity
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/low-salinity-fish-production-technology-can-cut-costs-aid-biosecurity/RAS research at Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center Fish harvested upon completion of a low-salinity trial. Over the past few years, interest in commercial production of cobia (Rachycentron…
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Selective breeding with fleshy shrimp
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/selective-breeding-with-fleshy-shrimp/…No. 1 after seven generations of selection. Further selective-breeding research is ongoing. New breeding center Funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, YSFRI recently built a new Genetic and Breeding Center…
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Inline quality assurance, part 3
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/inline-quality-assurance-part-3/…grinding and mixing cost centers, the operator of the pelleting cost center is responsible for controlling the process and ensuring that the product meets quality standards. In the pelleting process,…
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Microbead media offers low cost, efficiency in RAS biofilters
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/microbead-media-offers-low-cost-efficiency-in-ras-biofilters/Design tested over 700 days maintained acceptable TAN and nitrite levels The Wilmington Center for Marine Science RAS design uses groups of two circular fiberglass tanks supported by an independent…
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Feed supplementation with menhaden oil elevates omega-3 HUFAs in catfish fillets
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/feed-supplementation-with-menhaden-oil-elevates-omega-3-hufas-in-catfish-fillets/…Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center (NWAC) in Stoneville, Mississippi, USA, indicated that the diet of farm-raised channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) can be modified to produce catfish fillets with higher…
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Zero-exchange demonstration posts good results in Nicaragua
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/zero-exchange-demonstration-posts-good-results-in-nicaragua/…The project included four 0.5-ha production ponds, two 1-ha settling ponds, a pump station, generator shed, feed storage, laboratory, and office. The ponds were built with a center drain for…
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Standardize terminology for low-salinity shrimp culture
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/standardize-terminology-for-low-salinity-shrimp-culture/…the two aquifers. Saline contamination Downward seepage from a pond filled with saline water obviously could contaminate an underlying freshwater aquifer. The Claude Peteet Mariculture Center at Gulf Shores, Alabama,…
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Black tiger shrimp hatcheries in India, an overview
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/black-tiger-shrimp-hatcheries-in-india-an-overview/…enterprises have set up nauplii production centers (Table 3). Now, most of the hatcheries depend on these centers, instead of buying spawners and going through the ordeal of maturation and…
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Aquaculture in the third millennium
https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/aquaculture-in-the-third-millennium/…November the Asian Fisheries Society Fish Health Section (AFSFHS) held its Fourth Symposium on Diseases in Asian Aquaculture (DAA) together with the South-East Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC…