aquaculture Articles
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Phyco-Flows, Ponds and Conicals , KAUST - Case Study
Completed last week at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. An important 1st for Varicon Aqua Solutions in the region. A suite of Phyco-Flows, Ponds and Conicals. Installed and commissioned to support the aquaculture feed development trials under the guidance of Dr Claudio Fuentes Grunwald and his team. The push is on to deliver positive results and of course we wish them every success and offer our fullest ...
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Current Challenges and Trends in RAS Systems
The third installment in the series “Happy Fish – How Aquaculture Operators are Growing Better Fish.” This segment talks about some of the current trends and challenges in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems, also known as RAS Systems. Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is one of the developing technologies for the production of fish for food, feed, and other products. The ...
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The advantages and disadvantages of culturing fish.
The advantages and disadvantages of culturing fish. Experts develop practical recommendations for decision-makers, scientists and producers for a sustainable development of Mediterranean aquaculture. Human demand for fish is growing steadily. With fisheries decreasing worldwide, aquaculture is becoming an important socio-economic alternative and a source of proteins and healthy oils. ...
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What are the impacts and solutions to rising feed ingredient prices for aquaculture?
Our world population is climbing, and agriculture must rise to the challenge of producing a much larger portion of daily food intake for that population. One option that is gaining popularity is aquaculture, which provides much greater yields at lower inputs than harvesting a dwindling wild population of edible fish. But rising feed ingredient prices are beginning to have an impact on the ...
By BESTMIX
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How to limit waste and control quality in aquafeed production
According to Science Daily, aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector. As of 2014, over 50% of the human fish food supply is produced in an aquaculture environment. A growing dependence on aquaculture entails the necessity for aquafeed that can sustain such growth in a responsible matter but also meets the nutritional requirements of this demanding production process. As ...
By BESTMIX
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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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Probiotics in Aquaculture
Aquaculture is an essential and emerging food-producing sector in the world. The fishery yearbook 2017 states that 153 million tons of total fish production used for human consumption. But the production is always hindered by disease and environmental situations. These conditions result in severe financial losses for the companies. However, the use of antibiotics in aquaculture causes the ...
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Probiotics vs. Enzymes: Understanding Your Aquaculture Products
We believe the future of aquaculture nutrition, disease management, and environmental treatment is biological. At QB Labs, we’re constantly looking at the effects of various microorganisms to replace antibiotics, augment natural fish/shrimp biological processes, and improve environmental impacts of commercial aquaculture. While educating customers on our products, we’re often asked ...
By QB Labs, LLC
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How Has The Design Of Fish Feed Extruders Evolved In Time?
Fish feed extruders have come to be a crucial tool in the aquaculture industry, enabling fish farmers to produce high-grade feed that is customized to the nutritional requirements of the fish they are raising. Gradually, the layout of fish feed extruders has actually advanced significantly, driven by advances in innovation and a growing understanding of the needs of the aquaculture ...
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Water quality sensors protect the health of aquaculture fish
Water quality sensor are an essential tool for aquaculture farmers, as they provide accurate and real-time data on the water conditions, allowing farmers to take timely and appropriate actions to protect the health of their fish. Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, shellfish, and seaweed, is an important industry that provides food, employment. However, maintaining the ...
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Fishing for a Solution
As writer Rowan Jacobsen explores in our recent feature “Has Meat Met Its Match?,” animal agriculture’s hefty environmental footprint is creating interest in exploring ways to meet humans’ growing appetite for animal protein that extend beyond beef, chicken and pork. In some places, that exploration is going underwater. Aquaculture, or fish farming, is the fastest growing ...
By Ensia
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2020 Predictions for the Fish Feed industry
What does the future hold for the fish feed and aquaculture markets? Our world's population is growing more rapidly than ever before, causing strain on our ability to produce enough food for everyone, partially because of the increase in the number of people and partially because of the related loss of arable land from the same factor. At the same time, the push for a healthier diet has improved ...
By BESTMIX
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Harvesting your fish / Aquaculture
With good management, your fish should be ready to harvest within six to nine months after stocking. By this time, tilapia should have reached a size of approximately 250-300g and catfish a size of 250-500g, depending on their size at stocking, the density at which they were stocked, and water temperatures during the growing period. Preparing for the harvest Make marketing arrangements well ...
By Fishward
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Skretting produces sustainable fish food with the help of BESTMIX Recipe Management - Case Study
Skretting, the global aquafeed division of Nutreco, provides innovative and sustainable nutritional solutions and services to the aquaculture industry. This global player has production facilities in 18 countries on five continents. In 2022, the company produced and supplied more than 3 million tons of high-quality feed for more than 60 species of fish and crustaceans. For Skretting, R&D is ...
By BESTMIX
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What Types Of Fish You Can Farm in Nigeria
Fish farming a profitable business in Nigeria, let’s now proceed to decide which specie of fish we want to farm. Below are some of the most popular fish species that is suitable for Aquaculture. 1. Catfish Even though Catfish is not the most popular fish in Nigeria, this fish species is by far the most cultivated in Nigeria. One thing good about catfish is that it is one of the easiest fish ...
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Salmon aquaculture could incorporate seaweed and sea urchins to reduce nitrogen enrichment
Farming fish together with seaweed and other species could help improve the sustainability of aquaculture and reduce pollution. A new study provides a tool for designing sustainable fish farming systems and calculates their potential to recycle waste. An example of a salmon farming system incorporating seaweed and sea urchins could reduce nitrogen releases to the environment by 45%. Over half of ...
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How Much Is Fish Feed Pellet Machine In Nigeria?
To help fish farmers provide balanced fish feed pellets at a bargain price. Fusmar Machinery, as a professional fish feed machine designer and manufacturer, we have launched a series of fish feed machines with reasonable prices and high quality according to the local market conditions, including fish feed extruder, feed mixer, feed crusher, feed dryer/cooler, feed package machine, and so on. We ...
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Protix Receives 45M€ in Funding to Scale Production of Insect Proteins
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 can be ...
By Protix
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Aquaculture in the Philippines: The Top 10 Diseases Shrimp Farmers Should Be Aware Of
Shrimp are one of the most popular aquaculture species in the Philippines. Shrimp farming can be highly profitable, with higher harvest rates and relatively low production costs compared to other species when standardized, sustainable aquaculture approaches are followed. Disease outbreaks over the last two decades, however, have led to dramatic declines in the shrimp output and challenges for ...
By QB Labs, LLC
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Modern Project on Establishment of Fish Feed Production Plant
Fish Feed Plant Background & Necessity Along with the development of aquaculture, aquafeed industry has also made a quite fast progress, especially in virtue of continue advancement of breeding technology, the culturing mode has turned into intensive cultivation from extensive fish farming, which provides vast space for fish feed production. In line with the FAO (Food and Agriculture ...
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