aquaculture Articles
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Bioeconomic modelling and salmon aquaculture: an overview of the literature
Bioeconomic models can be used to assist producers and decision-makers in identifying optimal production system designs, operation management strategies, and alternative development and policy approaches. This paper reviews the literature on bioeconomic modelling in aquaculture since 1993 and builds on an earlier article by Leung (1994) which examines this literature for the 1974-1993 period. In ...
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Understanding biofloc in aquaculture production systems (Part 1)
Since 2009, protein from aquaculture production has surpassed that of fisheries for the first time in history. Aquaculture is simply a water-based agriculture with a long history. It is an essential source of nutrition, as well as a source of income for large number of communities. Aquaculture is here to stay, despite opposition to aquaculture from segments of the NGO community and commercial ...
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IRTA Integral Platform - Case Study
IRTA offers its IRTAmar recirculation system as a model for aquaculture research, through the company INGESOM. ...
By IRTAmar
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Ozone and Aquaculture - Case Study
Ozone is increasingly used in aquaculture due to its numerous advantages over traditional water treatment methods. Supplementing or replacing an existing system, ozone implementation has the potential to boost the competitive advantage of your aquaculture application. Ozone is now the treatment of choice for aquariums, aquaculture and many marine animal treatment systems. ...
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Estimating preferences for non-market attributes of aquaculture and sustainable seafood production: methods and empirical applications
If aquaculture is to promote sustainable seafood production, the public must be willing to accept associated tradeoffs. Tradeoffs may include impacts on a variety of environmental and social attributes. Public preferences for aquaculture may differ according to type of operation, species, region, and other factors. Stated preference methods can assist policymakers in designing balanced, ...
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Aquaculture and sustainable development: a regulatory or governance system?
Governance is defined as a process allowing actors to contextualise the regulatory system and, as a result, to transform sustainable development (SD) into an instrument of action. It will be all the easier for actors to familiarise themselves with SD and its implementation measures if these measures are similar to their representation on SD and its consequences on their activity and social life. ...
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Seaweed Reproduction and Hatcheries
‘Kelp’ Us Learn: Seaweed Reproduction and Hatcheries Credit for this content and appreciation for allowing us to repost goes to the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center. This video is a part of their seaweed education curriculum for Maine students. Learn more about their program here. Also special thanks to The University Of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute and School of ...
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Project - The First of Our Farms Turned R&D Lab - Fortune Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada
The original home of our aquaculture innovations and AquAdvantage salmon, our Fortune Bay location now operates primarily as an R&D ...
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A conceptual framework for the sustainability assessment procedures of the shrimp aquaculture industry in coastal Bangladesh
Shrimp aquaculture is now establishing itself as an important aquaculture industry in coastal Bangladesh. However, the benefit of this industry is concentrated to only the interests of a specific group of people who contribute a significant amount of foreign earnings to the nation, while the present development process is posing a challenge to the coastal sustainability, as well as the industry ...
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Sea Grant's role: sharing with the community the goal of fostering ecologically-sound, and economically-viable, aquaculture
US aquaculture is one of the fastest growing segments of US agriculture; however, as aquaculture expands, a number of environmental, regulatory, and socioeconomic concerns threaten to constrain further development of the industry. This presents unique challenges to the Sea Grant network. Although Sea Grant encourages the commercial development of aquaculture, it must work with local communities ...
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Chile's National Aquaculture Policy: missing elements for the Sustainable Development of aquaculture
This paper reviews the recently enacted Chilean National Aquaculture Policy (NAP). It goes through its central objective, summarises its main components and points out the main actions already underway by the government in the process of implementing this policy. The paper underlines the fact that this is one of the few national policies around the world explicitly setting Sustainable Development ...
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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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Phyco-Flows Azura Project - Case Study
Another project successfully completed in north west Africa for an expanding regional aquaculture company. As always a turnkey project from conception through to commissioning for production of a range of marine species including T-Iso. Comprising 2 x 10 M3 and 1 x 1 M3 Phyco-Flows the systems incorporate the upstream automated control and management of salinity via mixing of natural lagoon and ...
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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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Installation in Taiwan - Case Study
On May 2017 we have installed our water treatment system (SPB30) on a farm located in Linbian near Pingtung, Taiwan. The installation was done in cooperation with Agritech Asia Company. A company that specialized in importing advanced new technologies from Europe and Israel in the field of aquaculture and agriculture. The site where we installed our system consist of 1000m3 pond, 230.000 1 ...
By BioFishency
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Effects of different management regimes on mangrove ecosystem services in Java, Indonesia
This new report, published by Wageningen University and Wetlands International, seeks to fill a significant gap in mangrove ecosystem service estimates. While several studies have sought to measure and value the ecosystem services provided by mangrove ecosystems in general, this new piece of research has for the first time conducted separate evaluations for zones that are characterised by ...
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BioFishency installation in Indonesia - Case Study
The BioFishency water filtration system was installed in Indonesia in April 2017. This aquaculture plant grows Whiteleg shrimp, also known as Pacific white shrimp. The shrimp are grown in sea water in extremely high-density conditions. ...
By BioFishency
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Management and Prevention of Stress in Aquaculture with a Focus on Farmed Shrimp
Introduction: Over the last twenty years commercial aquaculture has experienced spectacular growth. A significant component of the fish and shrimp based protein that humans consume, especially in first world countries, is now provided by these activities. Many species have gone from small-scale regional production to large-scale global production. Concomitant with this rapid growth there also has ...
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Project - Harvesting Atlantic Salmon in the Maritime Province - 89,570 sq. ft. - Rollo Bay, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Located in the eastern portion of Prince Edward Island, our Rollo Bay farm is home to a state-of-the-art R&D hatchery and 250-metric ton/year Recirculating Aquaculture System – with its first harvest expected in early ...
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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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