Since its inception, aquaculture has developed into a major industrial complex, a major component of which is cage culture. Along with the growth, however, problems arose. Translocations of animals and diseases, as well as concerns over environmental effects limited the growth of the industry. The concept of fish health management whereby the host, pathogen, and environment are proactively mana...

Predatory open access (OA) journals can be defined as non-indexed journals that exploit the gold OA model for profit, often spamming academics with questionable e-mails promising rapid OA publication for a fee. In aquaculture—a rapidly growing and highly scrutinized field—the issue of such journals remains undocumented. We employed a quantitative approach to determine whether attributes of scie...

The purpose of the present work is to review some data for the management challenges that the aquaculture industry in Greece is currently facing. The results indicate that Greek aquaculture fish farms apply Human Resources Management (HRM) practices which can increase motivation, commitment and job satisfaction of their personnel. In turn, these practices can increase the productivity of the bu...

1 Fish Health Unit, Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland, Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Integrated Sustainable Aquaculture Production, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 4 Vet Aqua International, Oranmore Business Park, Galway, Ireland, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Integrated Sustainable Aquaculture Production, St. Luci...

Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) is a seriously problematic pathogen in olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) aquaculture farms in South Korea. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of VHSV which was isolated from spleen and kidney tissues of dead fish at an aquaculture farm in 2005. This genome sequence will be useful for virus diagnostics and in comparative analyses with oth...

Debtanu Barman1*, Phanna Nen2, Sagar C Mandal3 and Vikash Kumar4 1Center for Aquaculture Research and Development (CARD), St. Xavier’s Vocational Training Center, Don Bosco, Bishramganj, Tripura, India 2Fishery Officer, Freshwater Aquaculture research & Development Center, Cambodia 3College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, Lembucherra, Tripura, India 4Central Institute of Fisherie...

A number microbial components and plant products such as polysaccharides, lentinan, levamisole, schizophyllan, oligosaccharides, muramyl dipeptide and yeast derivatives have been used as immunostimulants in aquaculture to stimulate the innate immune system of fish and shrimp. Among the all the immunostimulants examined, Betaglucans were found to be most promising immunostimulants, which are use...

Because of the increasing significance of marine aquaculture for human nutrition Schleswig-Holstein developed into an international center of competence for marine aquaculture. „Fish in the Web“ is the construction of an informationand data-exchange platform with web 2.0 technologies for an interdisciplinary research project.

Since 2009, a clonal group of virulent Aeromonas hydrophila strains has been causing severe disease in the catfish aquaculture industry in the southeastern United States. Here, we report draft genomes of four A. hydrophila isolates from catfish aquaculture that represent this clonal group.

A microbial technique of biocontrol using the interaction of microorganisms to repress the growth of deleterious bacteria and viruses was deveioped. The bacterial strain used in this work also improved the growth of fishes and crustaceans. To control the bacterial population, protozoa was found having a significant role in the aquaculture biotope, The concept of biocontrol in aquaculture is als...