Fish Handling Articles
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Preserving our Oceans with Fish Recovery Systems
The power industry relies heavily on water to generate electricity. With significant volumes required for processes such as cooling and steam generation, water intake systems need to be sustainable. This means that they need to be energy efficient and preserve marine life. As a leading global supplier of innovative high-efficiency water treatment solutions, Ovivo provides screening ...
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What Are The Perks Of Using a Fish Feed Extruder In Tank Farming Procedures?
Aquaculture, the farming of water animals, has actually ended up being an increasingly vital resource of food worldwide. With the expanding demand for fish as well as other seafood, the requirement for reliable as well as efficient techniques of generating high-quality fish feed has actually become much more essential than ever. One of one of the most important tools in this ...
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Managing Water Quality When Transporting Live Fish Using Aquasend’s miniDOT® Clear Logger
Managing Water Quality When Transporting Live Fish Using Aquasend’s miniDOT Clear Logger No matter the fish species being transported, from largemouth bass to tilapia or even sturgeon, it is crucial to maintain proper oxygen levels and temperature when traveling with live fish. Each fish species has unique habitat requirements most often revolving around dissolved oxygen levels and temperature. ...
By Aquasend
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Aquasend’s miniDOT Guaranteed Success on Iron Chef
Aquasend’s miniDOT Clear Logger played a vital role in the success of television franchise Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend Episode 7: Battle of Live Sturgeon. How? The competitors’ challenge ingredient, sturgeon, had to be transported from Northern California and maintained prior to the episodes’ filming.Maintaining top quality and overall condition of food products when filming is a ...
By Aquasend
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Why is it better to use dry ice for keeping fresh and cold?
Dry ice, which is solid carbon dioxide, is known for a variety of uses, including preservation and refrigeration. Generally dry ice has two states, one is small pellets, used as a cleaning agent for industry; another is dry ice blocks, used as a refrigerant for food preservation. The cooling capacity of dry ice is more than 3 times that of water ice. After absorbing heat, it sublimates into ...
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Can Fish be Happy?
The sixth installment in the series “Happy Fish - How Aquaculture Operators are Growing Better Fish.” A curious question that we have been asking is a concept that we’re thinking about in regards to fish – can fish be happy or show signs of happiness? Both RAS systems and Net Pen operations aim to raise the best and highest quality fish to fetch the greatest market value. ...
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What Equipment Is Needed For Fish Farming?
Fish farming is a professional field of aquaculture, which requires specialized farming equipment. Without the right equipment, it will be difficult for fish farmers to complete basic tasks. Such as counting fish, harvesting, and proper oxygenation of the water. With the help of different functional equipment for fish farming, fish farming has become simpler and easier to succeed. By the way, ...
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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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Pit Test Pond construction / Aquaculture
Overview: The pit test in pond construction helps you to determine whether the selected area is suitable to construct an earthen pond. Dig a pit in the land area being evaluated, fill it with water, and observe how well it retains that water (better yet, dig and test a number of pits throughout the area). Follow these steps: Dig a small pit about 50 cm in diameter to the probable depth of ...
By Fishward
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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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New concept: Service vessel with compact processing factory - Case Study
Cflow has, together with ship owner company Charvest, developed a complete fish handling solution for a new type of service vessel. The solution is designed to increase fish welfare and efficiency, as well as contribute to the development of a sustainable industry. Charvest's new service boat Csaver, also called Minibløgger’n, is the first of its kind and has already gained good ...
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Aquarium of Novice, How to Set Up a Low Tech Planted Tank?
More and more people like to make an aquarium landscape, but they do not know the specific steps, have been afraid to try this! Today, we will tell you a brief introduction about the process of novice landscape. First of all, prepare a 60*45*45 fish tank. It is best to use fish tank filter box, which flow is up to 600L per hour, set up LED water grass fish tank light is the best. If you want to ...
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Different Kinds of Freshwater Angelfishes (4)
16.Zebra AngelfishScientific name: Pterophyllum scalare varEnglish name: Zebra angelfishThe zebra angelfish is characterized by a distinct stripe distribution on its body surface, like the black and white stripes on the zebra, which is one of the most attractive angelfish.17.Tri-color AngelfishScientific name: Pterophyllum scalare varEnglish name: Tri-color angelfishThis is one of the most ...
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How to Make a Paludarium? ——Aquascaping Knowledge Get You Done!
Fish Tank Size: 80*40*45 cm Lighting: Adjustable LED Aquarium Light 5W/8W/11W/16W Bottom Mud Material: Volcanic Stone, Light Stone, Thin Filter Sponge, Foam Plastic Cloth, Water Moss, Planting Soil (Peat soil, Vermiculite, Perlite) Material: Dynasty Jade Stone, Tank divider, Landscaping Glue, fish tank coral decorations Plants: Leucobryum juniperoideum, Giraldiella levieri, Metasequoia ...
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8 Main Points of Aquatic Plant Trimming (1)
1. It is best to turn off the Surface Oil Skimmer when trimming Foreground grasses, such as cow Eleocharis parvula, Hemianthus callitrichoides 'Cuba', and Glossostigma elatinoides, have a lower density than water, and there will be a lot of debris floating on the water when trimming. The debris is likely to enter from the surface skimmer into the filter cartridge, causing excessive accumulation ...
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Nominated to the Innovation Award: Stø Technology
The founders of Stø Technology refer to their catch management system as disruptive technology. «The Bumblebee» can change the entire operating pattern of the trawler industry. – This will make the trawler industry think completely new in terms of vessel and process optimization, new operations, market development and business models, says Arne O. Flø, Managing ...
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Tissue concentrations as the dose metric to assess potential toxic effects of metals in field‐collected fish: Copper and cadmium
The present study examined the available literature linking whole‐body tissue concentrations with toxic effects in fish species for copper and cadmium. The variability in effect concentration for both copper and cadmium among species occurred within an order of magnitude for all responses, whereas the range for lethal toxicity based on water exposure spanned approximately 4 to 5 orders of ...
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Marine messages
Europe’s seas are home to a rich and diverse array of species, habitats and ecosystems. Although vital for Europe’s economic and social wellbeing, many of these ecosystems risk being irreversibly damaged by human activities. ‘Marine messages’, a briefing from the European Environment Agency (EEA), provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs of European seas and ...
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Inflatable water toys may be the killer
The heat of the summer is the peak season of the children to swim, many parents would pick a nice swim ring to increase the safety factor, but the spare tire is really safe.? In the wholesale market, many businesses regard the spare tire placed in a prominent position, duck, fish shape of love handles a wide range, attracted a lot of people come to buy. Gem blind foreign language labeling, make ...
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Qualitative algal analysis from the fish-gut: Tested in the rice fish cropping system
Abstract: Algae constitute a major proportion of fish food in rice-fish culture system. Study of algal preferences and their availability in the natural environment might be important for developing natural fish feed. Preparation of formulated feeds using under-exploited materials such as algae not only reduces production costs, but also increases procurement accessibility of locally available ...
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