Aquaculture in Brazil probably started in the 17th century, during the Dutch occupation of the northeastern region. Currently, this activity can be divided into five main sectors, defined by tradition and type of cultured organism: freshwater fish, marine shrimp, mollusks, freshwater prawns and...

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 ...

Comparisons of production, water and energy efficiencies of aquaculture versus an array of fisheries and terrestrial agriculture systems show that nonfed aquaculture (e.g. shellfish, seaweeds) is among the world's most efficient mass producer of plant and animal proteins. Various fed aquaculture...

A comparative study was carried out to compare the effect of caging mullet and tilapia in a shrimp polyculture system. In six shrimp tanks (three tanks for each fish species), either mullet, Mugil cephalus (CCT-SM), or tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (CCT-ST), was stocked in cages. In three other...

This article describes size of the aquafeed industry, the key trends and demand, the major producers the predicted increase in the demand and production of feeds as a response to the increased catfish, tilapia, freshwater prawns and marine shrimp production in Japan, China and other Asia-Pacific...

Aquaculture plays a key role in Indonesian seafood production and food security. The most valuable species in Indonesian aquaculture is shrimp, which has been widely farmed since the early 1980s. Beginning in the 1990s, recurrent farm failures and increasing production losses caused by disease...

This study describes antibiotic use by small-scale freshwater aquaculture farmers in the upper Mekong Delta in southwestern Vietnam and the knowledge and practices surrounding the cause and prevention of aquaculture disease in that region. Forty five farmers were included in the study, of which 19...

Taiwan is one of the most important areas of aquaculture in the world. This article discusses the larviculture techniques, development of formulated aquafeeds, shrimp aquaculture research, tilapia aquaculture research, additional biotechnology research, commercial aquaculture sector, and future...

Oyster shell was used as alkalinity supplementary material to study the feasibility of supplementing alkalinity with oyster shell in biofloc technology-tilapia(GIFT Oreochromis niloticus)culture system. At the startup stage, the feasibility of supplementing alkalinity with different oyster shell...

This publication was prepared to inform member countries in the Asia Pacific region on the status and trends in the fishery and aquaculture sectors of this region. Highlights includes: aquaculture trends in sia and the Pacific Region, freshwater carnivorous finfish with high input requirements,...