Antibiotics in Iranian Aquaculture Industry

Use of Antibiotics in Ornamental Fish Aquaculture

1 This document is Circular 84, one of a series from the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: January 2003. Please visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2 Roy P.E. Yanong, Assistant Professor, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Ruskin, Department of F...

Antibiotics in Aquaculture – Use, Abuse and Alternatives

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, aquaculture is growing more rapidly than all other animal food-production sectors (www.fao.org). Its contribution to global supplies of several species of fish, crustaceans and mollusks increased from 3.9% of total production by weight in 1970 to 33% in 2005. It has been estimated that fisheries and aquaculture supplied the world with about...

‘Yo-yo’ diving in the aquaculture industry

Smart DR, Van den Broek C, Nishi R, Cooper PD, Eastman D. Field validation of Tasmania’s aquaculture industry bounce-diving schedules using Doppler analysis of decompression stress. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. 2014 September:44(3):124-136.) Introduction: Tasmania’s aquaculture industry produces over 40,000 tonnes of fish annually, valued at over AUD500M. Aquaculture divers perform repetitiv...

Potency of Barnacle in Aquaculture Industry

Antibiotics in Aquaculture: Questionable Risk to Public Health

antimicrobial use in food-animal production increase, while the absence of sound data allows for the presentation of highly speculative, unsubstantiated arguments and innuendo. At the heart of the argument is the belief by some that use of these drugs in agriculture and aquaculture leads to the increase and spread of antibiotic resistance. In fact, the probability of resistance transfer from ba...

Monitoring and managing microbes in aquaculture – Towards a sustainable industry

Microorganisms are of great importance to aquaculture where they occur naturally, and can be added artificially, fulfilling different roles. They recycle nutrients, degrade organic matter and, occasionally, they infect and kill the fish, their larvae or the live feed. Also, some microorganisms may protect fish and larvae against disease. Hence, monitoring and manipulating the microbial communit...