Innovation & Investment
Fish sorting technology firm aims to modernize farms
With a novel in-water sorting technology in the works, Agam says automating labor-intensive tasks on fish farms can improve accuracy and harvest yield.
Health & Welfare
Israeli firms developing oral medicines for shrimp and finfish aquaculture
Israeli companies ViAqua Therapeutics and TransAlgae say their orally administered medicines for shrimp and fish aquaculture are in the pipeline.
Health & Welfare
Dimensionamiento del TiLV y su impacto potencial en la producción de tilapia
Se ha iniciado un esfuerzo internacional de investigación para encontrar una solución para el Virus del Lago de Tilapia (TiLV), un contagio que causa altas tasas de mortalidad en poblaciones de tilapia cultivada y silvestre en Israel, Colombia, Ecuador, Egipto y Tailandia.
Health & Welfare
Sizing up TiLV and its potential impact on tilapia production
An international research effort has commenced to find a solution for Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV), a contagion causing high rates of mortality in farmed and wild tilapia stocks in Israel, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt and Thailand.
Innovation & Investment
Salmon farmers limiting time at sea for biological risk mitigation
Land-based aquaculture, perhaps the ultimate environmental risk-mitigation tool, was the talk of the town at the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum. Once scoffed at for high capital and energy requirements, RAS now has a crowded bandwagon.
Aquafeeds
Increased density improves grouper feeding response, growth
A growth trial using hatchery-reared grouper was carried out to study the effects of stocking density on feed intake and subsequent growth. Contrary to common perceptions, fish stocked at the highest density had higher feed intake and body weights.