By: George B. Brooks, Jr. Ph.D. Can aquaponics help restore the US aquaculture industry? Well yes, and it already is. Allow me to elaborate. For years now we have watched the slow decline of the aquaculture industry in the United States. A great discourse on this challenge was recently penned […]
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By Asbjørn Bergheim* Dealing with solid waste in aquaculture due to undigested feed and uneaten feed is a well known operational issue for fish farmers. Accumulation of solids in the fish units reduces the water quality for the fish stock and sedimentation in the recipient environment, e.g. on the sea/lake […]
By Jonathan van Senten, Ph.D. as guest columnist1 and Carole R. Engle, Ph.D.2 “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t […]
By: Paul B. Brown* Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.” Nate Silver (1978-), American writer. Nate Silver’s description of the American population and […]
By Suzi Dominy* Insects: the buzz word in aquafeed Fish producers increasingly look to feed containing plant-based proteins to provide the essential component of nutrition that builds and repairs the cells that sustain life. Agriculture produces roughly 525 million tonnes of plant protein a year from corn, rice, wheat and […]