Value-adding begins with ‘E’
Vitamin E, or alpha-tocopherol, is crucial to fish defense against lipid-oxidising free radicals. It also has great impact on flesh quality.
Bacteria play a role in the dynamics of nutrients in aquaculture production systems. This article explores the role of bacteria on nitrogen.
Vitamin E, or alpha-tocopherol, is crucial to fish defense against lipid-oxidising free radicals. It also has great impact on flesh quality.
Penaeid shrimp require dietary vitamin C for maximum growth and survival. In the 1970s, a vitamin C deficiency disease was described.
Proactive shrimp disease management, or prevention, is preferable to reactive treatment. Prevention can, however, can be costlier in the short term.
Recent advances have focused on the use of commercially available, reusable synthetic substrates that extend benthic surfaces throughout the water column.
A prominent shrimp farm and hatchery in Venezuela has tested microparticles, microencapsulated particles and liquid larval diets.
A novel liquid diet was developed and tested for first-feeding marine fish larvae. The diet was water stable, palatable and digestible.
The promise of an off-the-shelf, microparticulate diet for small larval fish is one of the “holy-grails” of aquaculture.
Southern flounder is an excellent candidate for intensive aquaculture in tanks and raceways using recirculating systems.
The Conference on Aquaculture in the Third Millennium in Bangkok had the objective of developing policies to promote sustainable development of aquaculture.
A sustainable industry must complete animals' life cycle in captivity and establish high quality broodstock production by selective breeding.
New molecular biology technologies are complex and expensive but also strongly recommended for any genetic selection program in aquaculture.
The farm operations and hatchery at Aquamarina de la Costa in Venezuela are based on broodstock and larvae of the species Litopenaeus vannamei.
Critical to the success of genetic improvement and the breeding program at OI is the use of specific pathogen free (SPF) shrimp stocks.
Use of microsatellites is one of many marker approaches, but has proven to be the tool of choice across all commercial agriculture sectors.
A selective breeding program to develop TSV-resistant shrimp aimed to minimize risk of disease and maximize profits.