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Ammonia Exposure Affects Rainbow Trout Fillet Quality

The accumulation of organic waste such as aquatic animal feces or uneaten feed leads to the deterioration of water quality in aquaculture systems. Various investigations ...

Half of global methane emissions come from aquatic ecosystems – much of this is human-made

Judith Rosentreter, Yale University; Alberto Borges, Université de Liège; Ben Poulter, NASA, and Bradley Eyre, Southern Cross University Methane — a greenhouse gas far more ...

Mussels and Other Aquatic Animals Provide Critical Coastal Ecosystem Protections

by Ben Best, Yale School of the Environment A new study focusing on 750,000 acres of U.S. coastal areas finds that mollusks act as ecosystem ...

The future of intensive tilapia production and the circular bioeconomy without effluents

Modern low-water tilapia farming aims, as in the circular bioeconomy, to reduce inputs and fully reuse waste and effluents. Likewise, concern about diseases, market demand ...

Does current shellfish culture gear curb ‘crunching” rays?

by Gisele Galoustian, Florida Atlantic University According to NOAA Fisheries, more than 80 percent of marine aquaculture production in the United States consists of bivalve ...

Breeders of new fish hope to tickle taste buds of salmon, cod and tuna lovers

Attention seafood lovers! Gabor Hetyey strongly recommends a new dish: fried catfish. Hetyey is no restaurant chef in his native Hungary. Rather, he belongs to ...

How to improve the welfare assessment in certification schemes to aquaculture?

Currently, there are several certification systems that are being implemented in aquaculture operations; however, welfare plays a relatively small role in almost all schemes. According ...

Roadmap for Sustainable Aquaculture

Population growth makes it crucial to transform global food systems to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. Blue ...

Scientists propose a standardized model to study sea lice

Sea lice are considered one of the main problems in the salmon industry in almost all farming areas in the world. This ectoparasitic copepod is ...

Algal blooms have spread and intensified in the last two decades

A team of scientists from the Southern University of Science and Technology, the University of South Florida, the Shenzhen Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center of ...