Aquaculture Articles

Volodymyr Taratunskiy and his family from the village Kyrnasivka in the Vinnitsa region in Ukraine have been in the poultry business for 20 years. They produce and sell breeders and chickens. All raised in cages. A quite different system –When visiting one of my colleagues in 2012 I saw a ventilation system from DACS in Denmark, and there was no doubt in my ...

Apr. 25, 2018

By DACS A/S

We are currently cultivation microalgae species such as Haematococcus Pluvialis and Auxenochlorella protothecoides. Please read more about these microalgaes in our product page for the BioAlgae-unit. ...

Mar. 27, 2018

By Redono Oy

Addfield supply a Mobile Aquaculture machine that enables the farming of fish to be sustainable. The Challenge The challenge was to build a bespoke aquaculture incineration machine for Scottish Sea Farms Being located in Northern Scotland means that the working environment is arduous and challenging so Scottish Sea Farms need their equipment to withstand testing ...

Mar. 27, 2018

By Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd.

Redono is performing hydroponic plant cultivation and microalgae cultivation researches together with the Clean Technologies Department in Metropolia, University of Applied Science, Vantaa. ...

Mar. 1, 2018

By Redono Oy

Abagold Ltd, the largest cultivator of farmed Abalone in South Africa, needed to extend their aquaculture facilities in Hermanus, near Cape Town in South Africa. They knew it would be a challenge, as they need to continuously pump large volumes of turbulent seawater. They required high efficiency and reliability, combined with easy maintenance, all fitting into an existing pump station. This task ...

Feb. 22, 2018

By Rodelta Pumps International B.V.

The LiceSonic research project, started by a European Consortium coordinated by LG Sonic to develop an environmentally friendly solution to control sea lice in open finfish production, has advanced into lab testing. The first lab tests provided positive results for the further development of an ultrasound solution to control sea lice. ...

Feb. 5, 2018

By LG Sonic

SalMar Settefisk in Follafoss, part of SalMar ASA, is one of the largest salmon producers in the world with its production of 10 million smolts (fry) a year. When expanding its facility with a new RAS (recirculating aquaculture) system Primozone® was chosen to supply and design the complete ozone water treatment solution for the hatchery. Preferred supplier The Primozone solution was ...

Jan. 25, 2018

By Primozone Production AB

Sustainable fish farm Bell Aquaculture choose Primozone ozone solution when expanding its production facility Sustainable fish farmer Bell Aquaculture installed a Primozone ozone system when expending its production facility in Albany, IN. Thanks to the Primozone ODM ozone distribution module the investment cost became substantially lower. Bell Aquaculture is the largest yellow perch fish farmer ...

Jan. 25, 2018

By Primozone Production AB

St. Paul, Minnesota: State DOT Issues New Compost Specs The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT) updated its specifications for using finished compost in MNDOT projects in the 2018 Edition of its “Standard Specifications For Construction.” The two main changes to the specs, explains Kayla Walsh of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, are: 1) Inclusion of food ...

Jan. 1, 2018

By BioCycle Magazine

Currently, fisheries and aquaculture continue to be crucial sources of food, nourishment, earnings and sustenance for hundreds of millions of people all over the world, especially for Nigerians. Fortunately, all the above datum also tell that there are big profits for Nigerian fishery, fish farmers, fish feed manufacturers and suppliers if they can use scientific methods to develop aquaculture, ...

Dec. 12, 2017

By Fanway Fish Feed Machinery

The wreck of the MV Rena and the subsequent resource consent processes, to enable the dumping and discharging of contaminants through abandoning the remnants of the wreck, created considerable division in the Bay of Plenty region, especially within iwi. Much of this conflict related to the nature of the effects, their monitoring and mitigation. The Rena case provides useful lessons for the impact ...

Dec. 7, 2017

By International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)

The Earth’s population has more than quadrupled in the last 150 years, which has led to dramatic changes in the livestock industry because farmers had to increase the density of animals in order to meet demand. As a result of the increased proximity of animals to one another, disease became a huge problem. Subsequently, antibiotics began being commonly used on livestock farms. Originally, ...

Nov. 20, 2017

By NW Solutions

At Waroona in the Peel region of Western Australia in 2014, 12 by 1m square wire cattle cages were placed at random to evaluate the effects of Hibrix pasture treatment combined with 50kg/ha of super phosphate versus the growers standard fertiliser usage of 100kg/ha of super phosphate. The Hibrix treated plots produced significantly higher amounts of dry matter without any reduction in pasture ...

Sep. 13, 2017

By NW Solutions

In virtue of mature processing technology and unique advantages in fish farming, extruded floating and sinking fish feed has become the most ideal fish feed in modern aquaculture industry. With the further development of fish farming industry, extruded fish feeds have obtained more and more wide applications in virtue of unique advantages including high nutrient, good palatability, strong ...

Sep. 7, 2017

By Fanway Fish Feed Machinery

Levels of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) monitored in surface water and brown mussels collected at 28 production areas in Brazil from August 2012 to October 2013 were used to assess compliance with the bacteriological standards of the shellfish hygiene classification systems used in the European Union (EU) and USA. This classification determines the level of post-harvesting purification ...

Jul. 26, 2017

By IWA Publishing

In this Short Note, we highlight the Freeze Drying (lyophilization) and subsequent fat extraction of food samples. The SpeedExtractor E-914 / E-916 can be used only for solid or semi-solid samples. Residual moisture needs to be removed by mixing the sample with a drying agent such as diatomaceous earth. This can be omitted by using Freeze Drying: the drying is initiated mainly by direct ...

Jul. 19, 2017

By BÜCHI Labortechnik AG

After decades of regulatory and legal challenges, AquaBounty aims to bring genetically engineered salmon to U.S. and Canadian markets next year. On a hill above the cold waters around Prince Edward Island, technicians painstakingly create fertilized Atlantic salmon eggs that include growth-enhancing DNA from two other fish species. The eggs will be shipped to ponds in the high rainforest of ...

Jun. 27, 2017

By Ensia

Due to the low concentration of nitrate and high contents of organics, brewery effluent was not suitable for the cultivation of Spirulina sp. This work changed the nutrient profile of brewery effluent effectively by dilution, addition of nitrate, and anaerobic digestion. The result showed that the optimum dilution rate and NaNO3 addition for brewery effluent were 20% and 0.5 g/L, ...

Jun. 21, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Today, the insect supply industry reached a significant milestone with Netherlands-based Protix, the leading insect company, closing 45M€ in funding – delivered by Aqua-Spark, the first investment company focused on sustainable aquaculture, Rabobank, BOM and various private investors. Protix breeds insects for animal feed, as insects offer a low-impact protein alternative that ...

Jun. 13, 2017

By Protix

Sevan trout is an endemic fish species, registered in the Red Data Book of Armenian Animals as a ‘Critically Endangered’ species (IUCN category: CR A2cd) and is one of the most valuable fish of the Armenian ichthyofauna. For the purpose of preservation of this endangered fish species, rivers in the South-West part of Lake Sevan have been studied and their potential for spawning has been ...

Jun. 12, 2017

By IWA Publishing