industrial aquaculture Articles
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Emerging Trends in the Aquaculture Industry
The first installment in the series “Happy Fish – How Aquaculture Operators are Growing Better Fish.” It’s important for any aquaculture business to stay on top of the leading industry trends in order to be successful. However, it can be daunting to to know where to start or who to turn to for advice. After all, time and money is a precious ...
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Monitoring Ozone (in the air) in Hatchery & Fish Farm Ozone Injection Systems
Hatcheries, fish farms and such in the aquaculture industry require clean water to maintain a high survival rate while rearing aquatic animals. Contaminated water increases the risk of infection which in turn can compromise production. A common way to disinfect water is by generating ozone on-site with an ozone generator, which is commonly inside an ozone generator room. For human safety, the ...
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Land-based Aquaculture: Meeting the Challenge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
In 2015, all United Nations Member States agreed to 17 Global Goals, officially known as the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. These goals serve as a call to action aimed at ending poverty, fighting inequality and addressing the urgency of climate change, by 2030. They are part of a broader global movement encouraging all industries — including aquaculture — to adopt more ...
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Land-Based Aquaculture: Seven Tips for Investing Successfully
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, aquaculture has become the world’s fastest growing food-producing industry, currently producing over 50 percent of consumed seafood worldwide. Out of all existing aquaculture methods, Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS), a land-based aquaculture technology, offers significant advantages. What is a Land-Based Aquaculture ...
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How to Choose The Right Aquaculture Geomembranes?
Every aquaculture pond liners’ initial role is to maintain the water in your pond. Meanwhile, manufacturers make the flexible liners usually called geomembranes by engineers, with various materials, each of the liners has pros and cons depending on the aquaculture ponds’ design, the aquaculture pond liners need to be temperature stable and keep good performance in the hottest and ...
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Innovation the key behind success at Fusion Marine
It has been another busy year for Fusion Marine with the international fish farming sector ordering fish containment pens and a wide range of other specialist aquaculture systems from their diverse range. It has been an important year in other ways too with Fusion Marine moving its administration office from Barcaldine to new modern facilities at Malin House at the European Science Park in ...
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What is a Split-Pond Partitioned Aquaculture System (PAS)?
What is a Split-Pond Partitioned Aquaculture System (PAS)? According to the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center, “The Partitioned Aquaculture System (PAS) developed at Clemson University combines the process control advantage of recirculating aquaculture with the lower cost of pond aquaculture.” Since then, scientists at Mississippi State University have begun to modify the original ...
By Aquasend
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7 ways to safely deploy new systems for your hatchery
AI, IoT, ROV, M2M. These are some acronyms that have been hurled around in the corporate world, which in recent years have made their way to the waters of the aquaculture industry. Have you been thinking of betting your money on deploying a high-tech equipment in your hatchery facility? Here are a few pointers that can help you cut the risks associated with high-tech adoption, stack the odds in ...
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Things To Consider Before Starting A Fish Farm Business
Are you considering entering the fish farming business, and are you considering factors to consider when planning to locate your fish pond? Fish farming is one of the thousands of dollars of profitable business ideas during the harvest season. Fish feed pellet machine is the indispensable equipment to make fish feed pellets. Have you gone into fish farming, but it doesn’t seem to be ...
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Talking Tanks and Raceways: Options Available in Aquafarming
According to Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Practice Standard, aquaculture tanks and raceways exist to “provide a facility containing flowing water of suitable temperature and quality for dependable production of fish, to manipulate the chemical, physical and biological factors to enhance fish production and to maintain water quality.” In order to provide a ...
By Aquasend
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Desert Fish Farming & Waste Management
Fish Waste Disposal In Desert Farming When you think about desert farming, desert fish farming probably isn’t an activity that springs to mind. Desert farming conjures ideas of livestock grazing across dry, arid landscapes, or rows and rows of hardy, sun-worshipping crops. And yet, desert fishing is becoming increasingly popular in North Africa and the Middle East, particularly in countries ...
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Desert Fish Farming & Waste Management
When you think about desert farming, desert fish farming probably isn’t an activity that springs to mind. Desert farming conjures ideas of livestock grazing across dry, arid landscapes, or rows and rows of hardy, sun-worshipping crops. And yet, desert fishing is becoming increasingly popular in North Africa and the Middle East, particularly in countries like Algeria, where overfishing ...
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Next Generation Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) Technology
The increasing number of aquaculture facilities based on RAS, or Recirculating Aquaculture Systems technology, is testament to the fact that this technology is proving highly advantageous. AquaMaof, a leader in recirculating aquaculture systems, brings a unique, multidisciplinary approach to indoor fish production, and is leading the way in developing innovative recirculating aquaculture system ...
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Zambia Fish Pond Liner–A New Force of African Tilapia Culture
Introduction Zambia is a country rich in natural resources. 40% of Zambia’s area is covered by freshwater, including the Kariba Reservoir located between Zambia and Zimbabwe, with a water capacity of 5,400 cubic kilometers, which is the most suitable for the development of aquaculture. Lake resources are one of Zambia’s advantages, and Zambia’s soybean industry is also very ...
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