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...

A variety of bivalve mollusks (phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia) constitute a prominent commodity in fisheries and aquacultures, but are also crucial in order to preserve our ecosystem's complexity and function. Bivalve mollusks, such as clams, mussels, oysters and scallops, are relevant bred...

Best practice approaches used in the live transport of commercial crustacean species groups are reviewed and the physiological responses to handling practices are described. Codes of practice aimed at providing technological guidelines in handling and transportation of live prawns, lobsters, crabs...

Ensuring the health of shrimp and crayfish under intensive aquaculture conditions is the key to the sustainable development of aquaculture industry of these crustaceans. Vitamin C as an important nutrient and immune modulator for fish and shrimp has been widely used in the aquaculture industry. At...

This research evaluated the protective effect of vitamin A (VA) on the adverse effect of fish oil (FO) substitution with palm oil (PO) in an economical crab Eriocheir sinensis. Three diets of FO, PO, and PO + 8000 IU/kg VA as the main lipid sources were fed to crabs, respectively, for 8 weeks....

This study evaluated the effects of microalgae (Scenedesmus obliquus) addition and fish feed supplementation on hemato-immunological parameters of Pacific white shrimp (Penaeusvannamei) and juvenile Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) cultured in integration using biofloc technology for 62 days....

Innate immunity is the only defense system for resistance against infections in crustaceans. In crustaceans, white spot diseases caused by white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) are a serious viral disease with high accumulative mortality after infection. Attachment and entry into cells have been known...

This new edition of Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants covers all major aspects of the culture of fish, shellfish and algae in freshwater and marine environments. Subject areas covered include principles, water quality, environmental impacts of aquaculture, desert aquaculture,...

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...

β-1,3-glucans, natural polysaccharide groups, exert immunomodulatory effects to improve the innate response and disease resistance in aquatic species and mammals. However, this β-glucan stimulant is yet to be assayed in swimming crab (Portunus trituberculatus) hemocytes. In this study, we explored...