Advice on how to avoid major shrimp losses from early mortality syndrome (EMS) – one of the most devastating diseases to hit shrimp aquaculture in the last decade.
Saran untuk menghindari kerugian besar akibat early mortality syndrome (EMS) – salah satu penyakit paling parah yang melanda budidaya udang dalam dekade terakhir.
Victoria Alday-Sanz, director of biosecurity and breeding programmes at Saudi Arabia's National Aqua Group (NAQUA), talks about the challenges of looking after 80,000 tonnes of fish and shrimp each year.
Recent trends indicate that illegal imports of fertilised eggs, fingerlings and market-ready tilapia from China are presenting a serious challenge to the efforts of sub-Saharan Africa’s fledgling fish farmers.
Stable, biosecure, zero water-exchange aquaculture is the only remedy for repeated catastrophic loss from disease in the shrimp industry, according to Panama-based shrimp RAS expert Dr Bill McGraw.
The success of a project that used a cutting-edge genetic technique to assess the presence of water-borne pathogens in Australia's barramundi sector shows the huge potential the technique has to offer to the wider aquaculture industry.
Salmon farmers and equipment providers are backing the value of using closed containment systems both on land and in at sea just over a year into a project which is investigating the potential pros and cons of such technology.
