inland saline aquaculture may offer an opportunity for income diversification and a potentially productive use of land that can no longer support traditional agriculture in salt-affected parts of inland production and investment levels are characteristically low. it needs to develop in a manner that both prevents the further degradation of agricultural land and provides opportunities for an alt...

Aquaculture is developing rapidly at a global scale and sustainable practices are an essential part of meeting the protein requirements of the ballooning human population. Locating aquaculture offshore is one strategy that may help address some issues related to nearshore development. However, offshore production is nascent and distinctions between the types of aquatic farming may not be fully ...

Aquaculture is nothing new. It arose multiple times in indigenous societies where coastal population densities of “seafood eating peoples” increased beyond the carrying capacities of natural, aquatic ecosystems to provide for them. There have been many “blue revolutions” throughout history! Aquaculture has a long, fascinating pre-history with well documented “blue revolutions” occurring through...

a European Community Reference Laboratory for Crustacean Disease, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Barrack Road, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, United Kingdom b Epidemiology and Risk Team, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Barrack Road, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, United Kingdom c Fish Health Inspectorate, Centre for Environment, Fishe...

Global aquaculture production has expanded at an average annual rate of 6.2% during 2000-2012, with world aquaculture production of 66.7 million tons in 2012, outpacing world population growth rate of 1.6%. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), aquaculture is estimated to supply 62% of the world’s fish for human consumption by 2030. However, aquaculture produces huge volumes of ...

Arizona aquaculture production in 2000 was 680 metric tons. Finfish including tilapia, bass, trout and catfish accounted for 590 metric tons, while other culture organisms, primarily marine shrimp rounded out production. The continued success of the aquaculture industry in Arizona is dependent on the success of individual farms. By increasing the chances of success through the proper selection ...

A.S. BOGEVIK 5 , D.R. TOCHER, E. LANGMYHR, R. WAAGBØ 5 & R.E. OLSEN 1 Institute of Marine Research, Matre Aquaculture Research Station, N-5984 Matredal; 2 Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA, UK; 3 Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, Fyllingsdalen, Norway; 4 National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES), Bergen, Norw...

THE EDITORIAL BY ROSAMOND NAYLOR, “Offshore aquaculture legislation” (8 Sept., p. 1363), suggests that the motivation for moving aquaculture into the open ocean is that “marine f ish farming near the shore is limited by state regulations.” Although unworkable regulations may exist in a few states, in the larger scheme this is irrelevant. Of the offshore aquaculture projects currently under way,...

This paper presents an online sensor fusion algorithm for state estimation of a remotely operated underwater vehicle for aquaculture inspection. The algorithm is based on an Unscented Kalman Filer (UKF) and uses information from several sources including an onboard inertial sensor, an onboard camera combined with line lasers and a priory knowledge about the aquaculture geometry. The performance...

In this paper we present applications of different machine learning algorithms in aquaculture. Machine learning algorithms learn models from historical data. In aquaculture historical data are obtained from farm practices, yields, and environmental data sources. Associations between these different variables can be obtained by applying machine learning algorithms to historical data. In this pap...