Fish Health Articles
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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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Aquasend Beacon® at Global Organic Farm, Inc.
Real-Time Data, Real-Time Control Deploying an Aquasend Beacon® is a great first step toward taking control of the water quality in aquafarm ponds and, by extension, the health of the fish. In order to have a successful farm you have to protect your most important asset: your water quality. Designed for outdoor aquafarm pond use, the Beacon measures dissolved oxygen (DO) and temperature (T), the ...
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Continuous DO Data Shifts Paradigm for Aquaculture Production
Continuous DO Data Shifts Paradigm for Aquaculture Production Overview Titikaka Trout Peru is advancing aquaculture production in Lake Titicaca, Peru, through continuous monitoring of dissolved oxygen data, a strategy never before practiced in the region. Challenge At 3,812 meters (12,507 feet), Lake Titicaca is one of the highest-elevation lakes in the world. With a surface area of 8,372 ...
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What is the outcome of floating fish feed making equipment?
What is the result of the floating fish feed making machine? Is it costly? For small farmers and also specific family farmers, a new drifting fish feed extruder maker can be taken into manufacturing, since several farmers can not make use of commercial power at home, and the majority of them generally make use of household illumination electrical energy. When picking drifting ...
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Aquasend Beacon® Alerts Crash in Dissolved Oxygen at Kent SeaTech
Case Study Description Located in southern California, Kent SeaTech, is a supplier of live fish for an extensive Asian Supermarket and restaurant industry. The company’s production facility is situated on a 160-acre agricultural valley and includes 96 circular concrete tanks, each with a 50,000-gallon capacity and a large circular raceway with a 500,000-gallon capacity. The aquafarm ...
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Aquasend Beacon® Monitors Water Quality at Mt. Lassen Trout Farm
Case Study Description Founded in 1949 at the base of Mt. Lassen in northern California, Mt. Lassen Trout Farm breed various species of trout and is a top trout supplier for recreational fishing areas around northern California. Mt. Lassen consists of several farm locations, each comprised of a series of raceways receiving water flow from local springs sustainably utilizing natural resources and ...
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PE Pond Liner for Fish Farm Project in Malaysia
PE Pond Liner is a new polymer material, which is made of polyethylene. It is the most used plastic drainage film at present and can be used in many industries. Because of its lightweight, low cost, and convenient installation, it has been used in fishery and agriculture. PE Pond Liner is used for seepage prevention and leakage prevention of fish ponds; It is also used for seepage prevention, ...
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The Importance of Water Quality in Fish Farming
Due to the increasing global demand for fish as a source of food, around half of the world’s fish supply is now farmed artificially rather than caught through capture fisheries in natural environments. Aquaculture has been the fastest growing sector of the global food industry since the 1970s, and has predominately taken place in the Asia-Pacific region. Water quality management in ...
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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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What is Real-Time Monitoring?
How Can Real-Time Data Monitoring Improve the Efficiency of Aqua Farms? Industry experts credit the monitoring of these attributes to crop growth, survival, feed efficiency, water chemistry requirements and the overall effect on production. Benefits of Real-Time Monitoring and Data Access Benefit One: Collecting data to be used for consistent growth and using data collected daily, weekly and ...
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Aquasend Customers Review Real-Time Monitoring Benefits
Oxygen is one of the most important assets to each aqua farm. Protecting it is critical. These are quotes taken directly from farmers regarding oxygen. "Dissolved oxygen is the most critical water quality parameter in warmwater aquaculture. As we feed fish more and more, the dissolved oxygen will drop lower and lower in the early morning hours. The warmer the temperature, the faster it will drop. ...
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5 Things to Do for a Healthy Fish Pond
Aquaculture farmers know that after several years of use in fish ponds after excavation and pond lining, collapse, bottom silt deposits, and clogging of water inlets and outlets will occur. The environment of fish ponds will deteriorate after stocking for a period of time. This is caused by the residues of feed residues, fish excrement, and drugs used. These pollutants are deposited in the sludge ...
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Population dynamics of 15 fish species in Grand-Lahou lagoon (West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire)
This study described growth, mortality, recruitment patterns and exploitation rates of 15 fish species in Grand-Lahou lagoon (Côte d’Ivoire). Monthly length-frequency data collected from artisanal fisheries from November 2013 to October 2014 were analyzed with FiSAT software using the ELEFAN package to estimate the population parameters of fishes. Asymptotic values for total length ...
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Krill as a Source of Natural Carotenoids - Case Study
Krill is a source of natural carotenoids. Over 95% of the pigments present in krill are in the form of asthaxantin, which is the only type of pigment that fixes onto the flesh of salmon when krill is used in the diet and the flesh color is the same that it is found in wild salmon (Hue). Pigments in krill are esterified giving them more stability. Asthaxantine is not only a pigment, but also ...
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Chitin/Chitosan as an Immunostimulant - Case Study
Chitin is component of several crustacean and insect carapace. It is an energy source for several species which can degrade chitin through special enzymes. Disease control, profilaxis and eradication are based on the use of vaccines and chemiotherapeutical substances. But there are a number of pathologies that have no known cure. There are for example, the case of Piscirichettsiosis in Chilean ...
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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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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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Current Challenges and Trends in NetPen Systems
The second installment in the series “Happy Fish - How Aquaculture Operators are Growing Better Fish.” This section outlines some of the current challenges and trends in NetPen Systems, otherwise known as open ocean systems. The global aquaculture industry is still young. It’s growing at nearly twice the rate of agriculture, and it supplies over 60 percent of the seafood we ...
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Fish Feed Extruder And Expander For Aquatic Feed Pellet Production
Extrusion processing technology has become of major importance in the aquatic feed pellet production line of modern feeds used in intensive aquaculture. Fish feed extruder is the prominent machine applied in aquafeed production, where the feed is subject to mixing, shearing and heating under high pressure before the extrudate finally is forced through a die. In recent years, there has been a ...
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How To Identify The Best Fish Feed Pellets
Fish feed pellet is very important for aquaculture. Fish feed pellet is of higher nutrition, stable performance, and it can float in the water for a long time without polluting the water. What’s more, it is easy for the fish to digest and absorb. So it enjoys a great reputation among the fish breeders. Fish feed pellet produced by our fish feed extruder is of higher nutrition and stable ...
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