News round up from a very chilly UK:
Infected shrimp seedlings are being blamed for an outbreak of viruses on Indian shrimp farms.
Farmers in the Vypeen, Kuzhipally, Edavanakad,
Ezhikara, and Nayarambalam areas have reported heavy losses of shrimp and crab due to disease.
K.K. Vijayan, Head of the Biotechnology Division of the Central Marine
Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, told the Hindu Times, “Some prawn
farmers from Kerala use seedlings which are rejected by aqua
farms in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh because they are available at a
cheap price. While farmers in neighbouring States go for disease-free
seedlings,
which are selected through scientific screening, their counterparts in
Kerala settle for cheap ones, thereby inviting infections.”
A prawn farmer in Australia is countering claims that aquaculture is bad for the environment by turning waste water into seaweed.
Alistair Dick, who farms in Queensland, developed an algae pond to treat waste water to comply with the EPCA (Environment
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act). However, he's taken things stage further by using the pond to cultivate a type of edible seaweed. The seaweed, which is very popular in Japan, grows in the sunlight it produces carbohydrates and protein by removing the nutrients from the waste water.
When I think of aquaculture in Egypt, I immediately conjure up images on Nile tilapia. However, the Egyptian aquaculture industry is not limited to the 'chicken of the sea'. This article is a neat introduction to existing Egyptian aquaculture and the potential for development.
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| Tilapia rendalli (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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