The demand for seafood products on the global market is rising, particularly in Asia, as affluence and appreciation of the health benefits of seafood increase. This is coupled with a capture fishery that, at best, is set for stagnation and, at worst, significant collapse. Global aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of the food industry and currently accounts for approximately 45.6% of the ...

The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a severe problem in aquaculture. The ability of drug resistance genes to transfer from a bacterial cell to another is thought to be responsible for the wide dissemination of these genes in the aquaculture environment; however, little is known about the gene transfer mechanisms in marine bacteria. In this study, we show that a tetracycline-resistant st...

Modern aquaculture provides effective means for intensive seafood production under AcontrollableB conditions. This rapidly growing industry, however, has experienced relatively severe disease problems owing to lack of control of the microbiota in rearing systems. Disease control is an inherent part of any intensive animal production system; however, in the aquatic environment, the intimate rela...

1. Shellfish farming is an expanding segment of marine aquaculture, but environmental effects of this industry are only beginning to be considered. 2. The interaction between off-bottom, suspended oyster farming and wintering sea ducks in coastal British Columbia was studied. Specifically, the habitat use of surf scoters (Melanitta perspicillata) and Barrow’s goldeneyes (Bucephala islandica), t...

This study was conducted in cage aquaculture villages in Hongngu District, Dong Thap Province of Vietnam during November 2001 to November 2002. Cage culture areas are located in the confluence of So Thuong Canal and one branch of the Mekong River. The purposes of this study were to investigate the cage culture system and its related environmental conditions, to determine the quality and quantit...

Aquaculture has important economic and environmental benefits. With the development of remote sensing deep learning technology, coastline aquaculture extraction achieved rapid, automated, high-precision production. However, some problems still exist in extracting large-scale based on high-resolution images: (1) generalization models caused by diversity breeding areas; (2) confusion target ident...

Kirsty L. Nash*, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Simon Jennings, Shaun K. Wilson and David R. Bellwood Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia; Lowestoft Laboratory, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft NR33 0HT, UK; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, ...

Modern marine biotechnology has been developing rapidly since the 1980s. There are promising and exciting achievements in biochemistry, genetics, genomics, aquaculture, bioenergy, and other related fields, beginning with genetic recombinant technology as applied to marine algae. Marine biotechnology clearly incorporates enormous social and economic benefits, thus providing a foundation for prob...

Phage therapy may represent a viable alternative to antibiotics to inactivate fish pathogenic bacteria. Its use, however, requires the awareness of novel kinetics phenomena not applied to conventional drug treatments. The main objective of this work was to isolate bacteriophages with potential to inactivate fish pathogenic bacteria, without major effects on the structure of natural bacterial co...