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Displaying Articles 76-90 in Health and Welfare
Health and Safety on Floating Fish Farms
By The Health And Safety Executive - This publication gives advice on the design, construction and safe use of floating fish farm installations including fish pens or cages, walkways, gangways, vehicle ways, land access ways, shelters and associated...
Channel Catfish - Life History and Biology
By Thomas L. Wellborn, University of Florida and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque), is the most important species of aquatic animal commercially...
Improving Animal Welfare: EU Action Plan
By the European Commission - Concrete measures to improve the protection and welfare of animals over the next five years are outlined in a new Action Plan on the protection and welfare of animals, adopted by the Commission today. The Action Plan aims...
An overview of fungus, fungi and fungal infections
By David Cox, the Fish Vet Group - Fungi are ubiquitous throughout nature and if left untreated many fungal infections in farmed and pet fish can be life threatening.
I'm A Fish - Get Me Out Of Here
By Pete Southgate, the Fish Vet Group - When keeping ornamental fish as pets, it is just as important to give full consideration to their welfare as with any other pet. The term ornamental fish in itself is an unfortunate one and a more acceptable term...
Collection and Submission of Samples for Fish-Kill Investigation and Toxic-Substance Analysis
Collection and Submission of Samples for Fish-Kill Investigation and Toxic-Substance Analysis - By Robert A. Pierce, Extension Fish and Wildlife Specialist; Thomas W. May, National Biological Survey, National Fisheries Contaminant Research Center and...
Tilapia: Life History and Biology
Thomas Popma, Auburn University and Michael Masser, Texas A&M University and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - Worldwide harvest of farmed tilapia has now surpassed 800,000 metric tons,...
Pond Culture of Tilapia
James E. Rakocy, University of the Virgin Islands and Andrew S. McGinty, University of Puerto Rico and published by the Southern Regional Agricultural Center and the Texas Aquaculture Extension Service - In the U.S., the most appropriate species of tilapia...
New EC Proposal on Animal Welfare for Farmed Fish
By the USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - The European Commission (EC) has published a proposal concerning the animal welfare of farmed fish to be adopted at the November 2005 meeting of the Standing Committee of the European Convention for the Protection...
Light Therapy for Tainted Fish
By Janet Raloff and published by Science News Online - Aquaculture - farming fish for our dinner tables - is a big and growing international industry. Because many of the tastiest and most-profitable farmed fish are carnivores, their prepared diets usually...
The Benefits of a Veterinary Health Plan
By David Cox, the Fish Vet Group - The Veterinary Health Plan (VHP) has been used for several years as part of good farming practice in many terrestrial animal production systems and forms the basis of several herd and flock health schemes.
White Spot Syndrome Baculovirus Complex (WSBV)
By the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission - This report looks at the problem of White Spot Syndrome and gives an overview of its biology and recommendations to guard against it.
Control and Management of the White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)
By Aqua-In-Tech - Diseases are due interaction between environments, the animal being reared (genetics, health, nutritional status, etc.) and the pathogen. In an ideal system these are in balance with the end result being minimal disease problems and...
Scientific critique of Wild/Farmed Salmon Sea Lice Study
By Alasdair H McVicar, Garien Aquaculture and Fish Health Consultants Ltd - There are serious inadequacies in the paper many of which could be attributable to mathematicians analysing numerical data without adequate attention being given to the reality...
Antec Virkon(R) S for Aquaculture Combats Infection Risk For First Feeders
By DuPont Animal Health Solutions - Now that salmon and trout eggs are near hatching, farmers will be getting hatching trays and first feeding troughs ready. As this signals a potential increase in the risk of infection, one of the key requirements is...
 
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