* By Stephen Newman, Ph.D. A common theme that we see more or less consistently is that survivals in shrimp hatcheries are poor. There are many reasons for this, and I want to lay out what many of these are and what might be done by focusing on criticalcontrol points. Shrimp are highly evolved invertebrates in the sense that they have...
* By Aquaculture Magazine Editorial Team This study examines how microplastic levels and insect-based fish feed (including insects reared on pre-and post-consumer food waste) shape consumer appeal for farmed seabass in Singapore. Using a discrete choice experiment with 600 participants, results show preferences strongly favored conventional wild-fish feed, lower microplastics, and local origin, while CO2 footprint was not significant. Education and...
By Fishprof For millennia coastal communities have harvested seaweed. Quite clearly seaweed is making inroads nowadays into western areas – be that food, beauty products, or medicine. The advent of new important activities and documents on seaweed has determined that FishProf will give you an update. For millennia coastal communities have harvested seaweed. In East Asia, notably China, Korea and...
Rosenstiel School Aquaculture Nutrition & Biotechnology Laboratory * By Jorge Suarez, Julio Camperio and Daniel Benetti Too often, decisions related to species selection, feed formulation, ingredient adoption, and investment in new technologies are driven by popularity, market trends, compelling narratives, or short-term availability, rather than by objective and comparable performance criteria. This dynamic has created structural imbalances across the sector. Certain species,...
By Aquaculture Magazine Editorial Team With modern industrialization and urbanization, global warming has become a serious threat to ecosystems, especially affecting ectothermic animals (those who body temperature depends on the environment), such as fish and shrimp. Unlike mammals, ectotherms are highly sensitive to temperature changes, which influence their distribution, behavior, physiology, metabolism, and immune function. Among the most affected systems...
* By Antonio Garza de Yta, Ph.D. The idea of producing fish within cities using recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is appealing: total control minimal water use, biosecurity, traceability, and proximity to the consumer. But, as I have insisted on other occasions, not every proposal being promoted today is viable. The problem is not usually the technology itself, but rather the...
