By: Daniel Schar, EiliY. Klein, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Marius Gilbert, and Thomas P. Van Boeckel * Several countries have experienced dramatic reductions in antimicrobial use rates following the introduction of vaccination and improved management and husbandry programs, serving as important antimicrobial stewardship models. Aquatic animals represent 17% of animal protein consumed globally, and for over 40% of the world’s population, fish...
In the recently released ABARES Statistics Report 2020, Aquaculture is now confirmed as the largest sector of the Australian primary seafood industry, revealing that the sector grew 10 percent in 2019-20. Of course, while the industry has been disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the total Australian fishery and aquaculture GVP in 2019–20 decreased slightly by 2 percent to $3.15...
By: Bilal Ahamad Paray, Mohamed F. El- Basuini, Mahmoud Alagawany, Moham- med Fahad Albeshr, Mohammad Abul Farah and Mahmoud A. O. Dawood * "Several studies have found that aquatic animals’ performances showed improvements as a direct result of using yucca as feed or water additives. Dietary yucca increases protein metabolism in the fish body, with a possible reduction in ammonia...
By: Aquaculture Magazine * The future of aquaculture production fits in a container, uses state of the art technology, and was born and raised in Oaxaca, Mexico. This is the story of Shrimpbox, Atarraya Inc.’s most ambitious project, which promises to transform an entire industry and satisfy the hunger of an overpopulated world. For the US market ($40 bn a...
By: Por: Anna D. Wilkinson and David L. Meeker *North American Renderers Association (NARA) The sustainability benefits of rendering can be accurately tracked and are more highly valued as our environment faces threats of climate change and reduced landfill space. Render is the act of processing and cooking undesired, or uneaten live stock and poultry meat that remains after a...
By: Yanting Wang, Kai Wang, Lei Huang, Pengsheng Dong, Sipeng Wang, Heping Chen, Zheng Lu, Dandi Hou y Demin Zhang * Unveiling the assembly mechanism of shrimp microbiota can help resolve the debate on whether we could improve the success rate of shrimp culture via manipulating their microbiota. In this study, we used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to investigate...
By: Sowmiya,C. and Atshaya, S. * Seagrass meadows benefit aquaculture systems by providing water filtration, biological controls, and regulation of dissolved gasses. In addition, the seagrass dominated system oxygenates the water by photosynthesis faster than the respiratory oxygen consumption, and it helps to maintain the aquaculture system above the minimum oxygen level. Seagrasses encourage various kinds of biota by producing...
As one of the biggest events held by students, AQUAFEST have fully support from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Republic of Indonesia. In this year, Aquaculture Festival 2021 event with the theme “Hidden Treasure of Aquaculture”. Aquaculture Festival is the biggest aquaculture student event in Indonesia that have been held annually by Aquaculture Student Association, HIMAKUA IPB...
XpertSea, a Canadian company transforming how seafood is farmed and traded, has been awarded the 2021 AgTech Breakthrough Award for Trading Solution of the Year. The winners were announced today by AgTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global agricultural technology market. XpertSea won for its data-driven marketplace, which uses AI and financial...
AquaBioTech Group and Bluefront Equity are pleased to jointly announce that they have entered into a letter of intent whereby Bluefront Equity will acquire a significant stake in the company through a combination of purchase of shares and new capital to accelerate the growth. The planned investment by Bluefront Equity will enable AquaBioTech Group to continue to rapidly develop its...
Close follow-up and simple measures has improved the quality and survival of the fry. The prize was awarded to Cermaq at the AquaNor fair taking place in Trondheim, Norway, for the improvement work at the fry plant Holmvåg in Steigen, Norway, and the good results it has given. Good fish welfare is good for business - Good health and welfare for our fish is fundamental in all our work throughout our value chain across all...
After a detailed assessment of the current situation of the pandemic, the Organizing Committee of the World Aquaculture 2021- WA2021, #AquacultureNow has decided to reschedule the date of WA2021 for the second quarter of 2022. With the main objective of safeguarding the health and integrity of our attendees, the Organizing Committee of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS, for its acronym...
