Health & Welfare

With support from the government and large companies, models for tilapia cage farming in Thailand acted as a catalyst to expand production in the 1990s. 

Monosex tilapia culture is preferred due to males' fast growth and large sizes. Hormonal sex-reversal techniques are being replaced by breeding programs. 

Biosecurity in aquaculture involves actions designed to maintain the health of aquatic animals by reducing the introduction of pathogens to facilities. 

Farmed fish species often pose fewer food safety risk than wild-caught fish, but antibiotic residues used to treat disease outbreaks is a unique hazard. 

Important points for aquafarmers to consider to minimize antimicrobial resistance and maximize efficacy when using antibiotics. 

Carp culture in the United States focuses predominately on ornamental koi (Cyprinus carpio). Individual koi can have a market value of thousands of dollars. 

The sediment quality of production pond bottoms has long been recognized as a factor that influences pond water quality and aquatic animal production. 

Infectious myonecrosis results in elevated mortalities but progresses with a chronic course accompanied by persistent low-level mortalities. 

Maintaining healthy stock requires a multidisciplinary approach that focuses on hygiene and both environmental and animal conditions. 

In trials examining attachment of biofilm to different substrates, authors measured their influences on the survival and growth of pink shrimp postlarvae. 

Oyster spat survival will be a selected trait for a full-scale, family-based selective breeding program being discussed with the French oyster industry. 

Dietary lipids are necessary for the growth, survival and metabolic functions. Triglycerides are the main form in which humans ingest and accumulate fat. 

A recent study compared the growth and survival at different salinity levels of “super male” (YY) tilapia with normal sex O. niloticus reversed to 100 percent phenotypic males. 

Based on histopathology and ultrastructure, the etiology of necrotizing hepatopancreatitis (NHP) in Pacific white shrimp was related to an intracellular bacterium. 

Authors assessed the health of black tiger shrimp seedstock produced in hatcheries around Tamilnadu in southeastern India.