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...

The status of organic aquaculture which presents production (cultivation) aquatic species (fish, crustaceans, molluscs, sea plants etc.) and guarantees high quality and safety of the product in accordance with specific principles is evaluated on the base of a large amount of statistical data. The...

This special issue contains topics on fisheries and aquaculture, including A recruitment forecasting model for the Pacific stock of the Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus); population structure and reproductive parameters of the longneck croaker Pseudotolithus typus in nearshore waters of...

A feeding trial was carried out to evaluate the utilization of residual nutrients from shrimp farming wastes (SFW) as co-feed in juvenile grey mullets Mugil cephalus. Four treatments were designed to offer shrimp farming wastes in different proportions as feed. The first treatment (control)...

The diverse aquaculture sector makes important contributions toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)/Agenda 2030, and can increasingly do so in the future. Its important role for food security, nutrition, livelihoods, economies, and cultures is not clearly visible in the Agenda 21 ...

Aquaculture is a growing industry with an annual growth rate that is far superior to the population growth rate. Most production occurs in lower- and middle-income countries, and therefore, they can improve the efficiency and modernize the production systems to increase exports to earn foreign...

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 single farmed fish species assimilates about 20% of the nutrients in the supplied diet. This study evaluated if the culture of complementary ecological-function species can recover nutrients dispersed into water and transform them into high-valued biomass. A completely randomized experiment was...

This book served as a practical guide and as a response to the great interest expressed by aquaculturists, farmers all over the world, interested students and scientists, requesting a source of general information on Biofloc technology whose primary goal was to increase aquaculture technology,...