Salmonids

Increasing consumer awareness to unsustainable aquaculture practices have made the prospect of organic aquaculture both environmentally and economically fruitful, but strict standards make this goal difficult to achieve. As the US considers by-passing this obs…

Farmed fish are contained - in ponds, tanks or cages - as with all farmed animals. According to a report published by Consenus, just as in land-based farming, farm managers increasingly choose stocking densities and handling practices that optimize growth and …

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) caused byTetracapsuloides bryosalmonae continues to bea major constraint on the rainbow trout industryin Western Europe and North America, writes David J. Morris, Charles McGurk and Gareth Butterfield of the Institute of Aqua…

By the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This annual report contains the number of trout operations, grower sales, and fish losses for selected states; includes number, weight, and value produced by type (foodsize, stocker, fingerlings), …

This article has been prepared as a practical guide-line to help small to medium size marine cage farmers within the Asia-Pacific region cope with common external parasites, write Neil Wendover and Cedric Komar, Intervet Norbio Singapore.

Report prepared by Camillo Catarci - FAO Globefish 2007. EU demand for salmon, albeit increasing, continues to be insufficient to cover rising supplies of farmed products.

By Jane Jordan, TheFishSite Editor. With reports of a significant escape of farmed salmon in Scotland's West Loch, Roag, hitting the headlines recently, the debate about the potential damage that escaped farmed fish can do to wild stocks has returned with veng…

By Nicky Holmyard, FAO Globefish. Peruvian trout producers are set to benefit from a new FAO-funded project that will introduce a management and policy alignment tool to help rationalise and develop the entire aquaculture sector.

By Dave Cox, Fish Vet Group - Malachite green was something of a cure all for farmed fish. Used successfully for preventing and treating fungal infections and ectoparasites, such as those causing white spot disease, it was also effective in controlling interna…

By Gunnar Knapp, Cathy A. Roheim, James L. Anderson and extracted from The Great Salmon Run: Competition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon, released by TRAFFIC