This article examines the performance of selected California fisheries in 2008. In 2008, commercial fisheries landed an estimated 141 377 metric tons (t) of fishes and invertebrates from California ocean waters. This represents a decrease of nearly 18% from the 172 125 t landed in 2007, and a 44%...

The emerging field of conservation aquaculture focuses on the potential for incorporating aquaculture techniques into restoration. Extensive loss of oyster reefs worldwide has led to restoration initiatives that sometimes incorporate aquaculture, but few scientific studies of this approach have...

Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) combines fed aquaculture (e.g. finfish) with extractive aquaculture (e.g. shellfish and seaweeds) at one site to recycle nutrient waste while producing marketable seafood products. If existing finfish monoculture operations adopt IMTA, there could be an...

An experiment was developed to simulate inland shrimp farming using diluted seawater (1.9 g L^-1) containing 75 shrimps (Litopenaeus vannamei) per square meter during a growth cycle of 120 days. In this study, the environmental loads of copper and zinc were estimated and compared to anthropogenic...

Yearly mass mortalities of Pacific oysters in a major oyster-growing estuary on the West Coast of the United States (Tomales Bay, California) present a constraint to shellfish aquaculture. These mortalities have been associated with the presence of Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1; Tomales Bay strain) ...

We describe the introduction, taxonomic identification and genetic parameters for farm traits of the Midori strain of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas - a possible alternative to the widely farmed Miyagi strain on the US West Coast. Broodstock (G0) oysters collected from the mouth of the Midori ...

The Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) and variants, particularly the microvariants (μVars), are virulent and economically devastating viruses impacting oysters. Since 2008 OsHV-1 μVars have emerged rapidly having particularly damaging effects on aquaculture industries in Europe, Australia and New...

This study evaluated the suitability of 21 inland waters (16 well waters and 5 surface waters) from Northwest Mexico via short- (48 h) and medium-term (28 days) tests using postlarvae (PL18) of Litopenaeus vannamei. In the short test, survival was assessed at 48 h after shrimp were placed in groups ...

Clams of the family Veneridae in northwest Mexico have traditionally been exploited by small-scale fisheries. Despite their socioeconomic importance for coastal communities in the region, most catch zones are currently in decline due to a lack of harvest control regulations that would impede the...

We use a bioeconomic approach to analyse the production, and economic performance of shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) reared in a photo-heterotrophic, hypersaline intensive system with minimal water replacement during spring-summer (SS) and summer-autumn (SA) production cycles in the semiarid region...