Aquaculture development in Tamaulipas has been based on aquaculture farming experiences of other Mexican states and has been subject to Mexican government programs and strategies aimed at supporting farmers. The main objective of this study was to determine the economic and financial feasibility of ...

This work presents an overview of the main residues (by-products) generated by fish -farming and bivalve mollusk culture in Galicia. The aim is to disseminate basic and applied knowledge pertaining to the chain of residue transformations, beginning with the producers and extending to the canneries...

The study was aimed at developing and validate an analysis method to determine residues of 30 veterinary drugs in rainbow trout and shrimp specimens. The method involves extraction in dispersive solid phase with C18 and the subsequent detection through liquid chromatography coupled to mass...

Shrimp aquaculture is an industry that uses fishmeal in diets, which is an ingredient difficult to obtain at low cost and increasingly scarce. It is important to find strategies that help shrimp nutrition by using alternative ingredients that replace or complement fishmeal and help develop a more...

Farmed shrimp are constantly threatened by infectious diseases. The increasing pressure on production demands high performance and efficiency that can only be achieved by eliminating or reducing the impact of pathogens. The timely detection of diseases is of great importance, so it is required to...

The history, current status, management and regulatory aspects of aquaculture operations in Peru are presented.

This article describes the history, characteristics, species composition and management of different aquaculture systems in Colombia.

Activities in aquaculture were begun in Zamorano in 1976 with the stocking of 400 fingerlings of the Java tilapia (Tilapia mossambica, now Oreochromis mossambicus) in a pond recently constructed for this purpose. Since then Zamorano has contributed to promoting aquaculture by training persons...

The current paper analyses the market, environmental and regulation issues limiting the development of alga aquaculture in Chile and we discuss the possible benefits and uncertainties for the future development of this activity. In particular, Chile has extremely favorable environmental conditions...

The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of the effects of phased cultivation on the productivity and the compensatory change of Macrobrachium rosenbergii prawns to increase the intensity of the cultivation and manage the heterogeneous growth through size separation. The study...