Aquaculture is the keeping, breeding, hatching or culturing of fish. Fish used for aquaculture include nonpearl oysters, mussels, yabbies, marron, crayfish, abalone, prawns, freshwater and marine finfish, trochus and algae for beta carotene (ie any marine organism other than reptiles, birds and...

This section is comprised of 52 abstracts of papers presented at the 30th Milford Aquaculture Seminar. The topics discussed include shellfish aquaculture, its effects on the environment and ecology, pollution by heavy metals, techniques employed in shellfish culture, management of aquaculture...

This book has as its nucleus a report prepared for the American Institute of Biological Sciences, under contract with the U.S. President's Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, but the report has been rewritten and supplemented with much new information. The authors' aim is to...

This book covers all aspects of subsistence and commercial aquaculture practiced around the world and would be of use to aquaculture students and those involved in the aquaculture industry and fish farms, research institutions, teaching, and aquaculture equipment and feed suppliers. The new...

This book "Recent advances and new species in aquaculture" is a comprehensive, up-to-date text that delivers the latest must-have information on species new to aquaculture and documents the most important technological innovations of the past decade. Every aspect of the growing field has been...

This book presents the latest research on aquaculture which is the cultivation of aquatic organisms. Unlike fishing, aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, implies the cultivation of aquatic populations under controlled conditions. Mariculture refers to aquaculture practised in marine...

This article discusses the possibilities for aquaculture of shrimp, mollusces, Octopus, marine finfish, seaweed and microalgae in Brazil. The current shrimp, mollusc, Octopus, marine finfish, seaweed and marine microalgae farming industry are highlighted.

This article describes the history, development, business management, production factors, yields, marketing, needs, recommendations and future of aquaculture in Asia and the rest of the world are described.

Aquaculture farms, such as the ones that produce mollusks, marine fish, and shrimp, require a constant supply of microalgae biomass as feed. Microalgae cultures are subject to failures in continuity; therefore, concentrated inocula could be used during episodes of crashes to reestablish the...