Capture-based Aquaculture
Global production from aquaculture has grown substantially, contributing increasingly significant quantities to the world’s supply of fish for human consumption, says a report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. This increasing...

Global Sustainability Targets of Australian Abalone Farmers
In May this year Australia's abalone farmers took an international lead role in developing environmental sustainability practices among the rapidly expanding global aquaculture industries, writes Dr Ann Fleming, Chair, Australian Abalone Growers Association....

Organic Aquaculture: What's in a Label?
Increasing consumer awareness to unsustainable aquaculture practices have made the prospect of organic aquaculture both environmentally and economically fruitful, but strict standards make this goal difficult to achieve. As the US considers by-passing...

The Special Case of Multifunctional Fish Farms
As well as being a farm that produces fish for food, Aranyponty - in Magyar, the Golden Carp - communicates the importance of managing Europe’s wetland heritage to society, by diverse social and educational activities, says a report in the...

Catfish-Duck Ponds for the Mississippi Delta
By Dr. Bronson K. Strickland, Assistant Extension Professor; Dr. Richard M. Kaminski, Professor; Dr. Aaron T. Pearse, MSU alumnus and now Wildlife Research Biologist and Dr. W. Daryl Jones, Assistant Extension Professor. Published by the Mississippi State...

Offshore Marine Aquaculture
This is an extract of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to the Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. It discusses why multiple administrative and environmental issues need to be addressed in establishing...

New Additives in Aquaculture - the Beneficial Effects of Dietary Organic Acids in Fish Nutrition, with Special Focus on Potassium Diformate
By Christian Lückstädt, ADDCON Nordic AS. It is a well established fact in the field of aquaculture, that the use of antibiotic growth promoters as an in-feed additive for the diets of fish and shrimp may promote growth and feed conversion as well as...

Moulting and Behaviour Changes in Freshwater Prawn
By Saravanan, S., and Biju Sam Kamalam, J. - PG Scholars at CIFE, Mumbai - and and also John Stephen Sampath Kumar, Associate Professor, FC & RI, Tuticorin, India. Published in Shellfish News 25 Spring Summer 2008.

Potential for Offshore Mussel Culture
By John Holmyard, Offshore Shellfish Ltd. Published in Shellfish News 25 Spring Summer 2008.

ECASA - An Ecosystem Approach for Sustainable Aquaculture
By Kenneth D Black and Averil M. Wilson from the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Scotland, published in Shellfish News 25 Spring Summer 2008.

Shining the Light on Trout: Where are We Now?
By John Taylor and Herve Migaud, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Finfish News, Number 5, Winter/Spring 2008.

Gold Standard for Sustainable Aquaculture Ecolabel Design
The report is a project of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and The Ocean Foundation (TOF). Funding was provided by grants from the Munson Foundation, the Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment, and an anonymous donor. The authors of this...

Conservation of Freshwater Fish Biodiversity
Exotic species of fish have been introduced into different natural environments either to be reared for food or to meet other needs such as horticulture, fishing or hunting for many years and now maintaining the biodiversity of the different water systems...

Present and Future Issues in Aquaculture
Our nation’s inland waters and coasts provide a wide variety of seafood with diverse health benefits, writes Jeff Silverstein, USDA Agriculural Research Service.

Non-native Crayfish in the UK
It has been over 30 years since the first introductions of the American signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) into the U.K., which was originally brought into the country for aquaculture purposes, writes Paul Stebbing, Fish Health Inspectorate,...