By: The fishmonger * You know what they say – ‘If you are not leading then you are following’ and that would often apply to many people and organisations in the seafood industry. Sad but true! The Fishmonger did not attend COP21 in Glasgow, besides not being invited he finds such meetings full of gloom and doom and lacking practical...
by Amy Stone* As things continue to heat up in the Aquaculture Industry in the United States, it is becoming more and more important to understand the key pieces to success. One piece to being successful is to avoid waste. As we all know, the lower the production costs, the more possible profit there is to be had and a...
By: Yedod Snir Preface RAS provides us with an alternative to ponds, cages and wild catch. In RAS we grow Seafood on land, with minimum resources and isolated from the Environment. The growing demand for seafood and protein to feed the billions of people on earth and the scarcity of natural resources, has made the development of RAS a necessity,...
By: Jianping Xu, Yishuai Du, Tianlong Qiu, Li Zhou, Ye Li, Fudi Chen and Jianming Sun As an environmentally friendly and healthy aquaculture technique, recirculating aquaculture has attracted increasing attention, and the continuous improvement and development of recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) procedures are now established practices. Generally, in the RAS, the effluent of the aquaculture tank is initially channeled through...
By: Ronan Cooney, Alex H. L. Wan, Fearghal O’Donncha and Eoghan Clifford * Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production system, and the sector accounts for more than half of all fish consumed. Its potential as a sustainable food source has been recognised within the EU Farm to Fork strategy and by the targeting of EU Green Deal research funds....
By: por Claude E. Boyd, Robert P. Davis, Arturo González Wilson, Fabrizio Marcillo, Susanna Brian and Aaron A. McNevin Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam are the main sources of farmed shrimp in the international market. Concern that excesses resource use and environmental degradation caused by food production is jeopardizing the sustainability of the world food system extends to aquaculture...
