By: Bermúdez-Medranda, A. E. y Panta-Vélez, R. P.* After their death, shrimps go through a process of blackening affecting their commercial value, being the cause of greater rejection of the product in the international market the melanosis in the shrimp, which is a change of color of the surface caused by enzymatic formation of compounds precursors which can spontaneously polymerize...
By: Suman Dey and Chinmaya Nanda* ICAR – Central Institute of Fisheries Education Aquaculture provides an appropriate alternative for improving fish production to address increasing fish consumption with massive livelihood benefits for societies. However, aquaculture production of India is a mere 7.1% as compared to 61.5% of China. The current utilization pattern of inland water resources for farming and the...
By: Ph.D Stephen G. Newman* There can be no sustainable aquaculture without pathogen control. Members of the OIE are ethically obligated as a condition of their membership to submit relevant disease outbreak information in a timely and open manner. Still, shrimp pathogens’ movement across international borders has caused billions of dollars of losses to regional economies. For three decades now...
By: Sarah Cornelisse* Marketing your business and products through social media can be powerful; social media allows you to connect with consumers where and when they want. And while social media is often touted as free, it is anything but. This article enlists errors that could prevent a good outcome with digital marketing efforts. Success with social media marketing requires...
By: Jonathan van Senten, VA Seafood AREC, Virginia Tech University; Carole R. Engle, Engle-Stone Aquatic$ LLC; Bobbi Hudson, Pacific Shellfish Institute; Fred S. Conte, University of California, Davis * The latest study of the farm-level costs of regulations on U.S. aquaculture has focused on Pacific Coast shellfish farms. Previous studies have measured regulatory costs on baitfish/sportfish (van Senten et al....
By: The Fishmonger* As individual retailers you may feel that there is little you can do that will impact the global seafood world but, honestly, that could not further from the truth. As individual retailers you may feel that there is little you can do that will impact the global seafood world but, honestly, that could not further from the...
