Light Finds the Parasitic Nematode
Parasitic nematodes are microscopic, but a major problem in the fish filleting industry. Scientists at Nofima have discovered that light and automation provides a better fillet, writes Martin Steinholt, Nofima.

Strategy for Improved Pest Control on Irish Salmon Farms
A new report from the Irish Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Food looks at fresh strategies for controlling sea lice in farmed salmon.

Oyster Market - 2008
At the end of the oyster season in Europe FAO Globefish reviews the market situation including import and export sales.

Reducing Burrowing Shrimps’ Impact on Oyster Production
By Laura McGinnis, USDA Agricultural Research Service, published in the May/June 2008 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.

Off Flavour Problems in Farmed Trout
Blue-green algae and some soil micro-organisms produce compounds that give water a distinctive earthy/musty odour and taste, Professor Linda A Lawton from School of Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen writes in CEFAS' Winter Spring edition...

Hatchery White Spot Infections: Making a Clean Sweep of It
By Sara Picon, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Bob Bawden, Pisces Engineering Ltd., Nick Taylor, Cefas Weymouth Laboratory and Andy Shinn, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling. This article was originally published in Aquaculture...

Hatchery White Spot Infections: Making a Clean Sweep
By Sara Picon*, Bob Bawden⁺, Nick Taylor^# & Andy Shinn* published by CEFAS Finfish News - Issue 4, Summer/Autumn 2007.. A joint research programme has been set up to look at the threat of White Spot in hatcheries.

Towards Sustainable Development in Aquaculture
By Chris Harris, TheFishSite Senior Editor. At the recent FAO conference on the Role of Aquaculture in Sustainable Development in Rome, FAO ADG of the United Nation's FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Ichiro Nomura, spelt out the need for growth...

Step by step guide to a marine water parasite prevention plan (PPP)
By Neil Wendover and Cedric Komar, Intervet Norbio Singapore. This article has been prepared as a practical guide-line to help small to medium size marine cage farmers within the Asia-Pacific region cope with common external parasites.

Candidate Species for Aquaculture: Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus
By Christian L. Miller, Extension Agent-Homestead; Cortney L. Ohs, Assistant Professor, IRREC-Ft. Pierce, and Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; R. LeRoy Creswell, Marine Extension Agent-Ft. Pierce, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences,...

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia of Fishes
By Philip E. McAllister - Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), a systemic infection of various salmonid and a few nonsalmonid fishes, is caused by a rhabdovirus designated as the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (Office International des Epizooties ...

Fish and DNA chips
By Prof Alan Teale, University of Stirling; Prof Chris Secombes, University of Aberdeen and Dr Glen Sweeney, Cardiff University and published by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - Research carried out under BBSRC s Exploiting Genomics...

State of world aquaculture: 2006
By the Food and Agriculture Organisation - This document analyses the past trends that have led the aquaculture sector to its current status and describes its current status globally.

Evaluation of Fish Vaccination Machines In Norway
By Solveig Nygaard, Fiskehelse og Miljø AS, Veterinary Specialist - In the early years of the salmon industry in Norway, vaccination by hand was essentially the only method used to vaccinate fish. However, since then, a number of vaccination machines...

Proliferative Kidney Disease
By Charles McGurk, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland and published in Intervet's Aquatic Animal Health Newsletter - Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) has been recognised as a parasitic disease of great economic significance to...