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2012 March/April

2012 March/April

COVER

  • Saprolegnia treatment and prevention subject of new study
  • California reports banner year for Chinook - The numbers are in, and last year’s final egg take from spawn-ready adult chinook salmon that returned in droves to several state and national hatchery locations made for a record year.
  • BRAZIL’S BIG PLANS - With strong government-backing and a huge freshwater resource this newly prosperous South American country is making rapid gains in aquaculture production.

NEWS

  • Wrasse reproduction a focus of research at University of Stirling
  • Lower profits for Norwegian salmon hatcheries - Profitability in the Norwegian hatchery sector has declined according to a 2010 government survey
  • Scotland releases stats for 2010 smelt production - Scotland produced 36.9 million Atlantic salmon smolt in 2010 – the same amount that was recorded in 2009, according to the Scottish Fish Farm Annual Production Survey.
  • Feds restore funding for US fish hatcheries But future still uncertain
  • Breeding the New Zealand short-finned eel, and its hybridization with European eels
  • Bio-diesel by-product enhances -growth of juvenile gilt head bream
  • New plans for restoring salmon runs in Downeast Maine
  • New ideas, new funding vital for future of public hatcheries
  • Predator-avoidance training for Florida bass
  • Common monitoring program proposed for Columbia basin hatcheries
  • Volunteers ensure success at new Scottish hatchery
  • Hatchery-raised steelhead lose “street smarts” in just one generation
  • New trout breeding centre planned for Peru
  • French researchers test in vitro storage of rainbow trout eggs at low temperature
  • Kofi Annan to speak at AquaVision 2012
  • Ultraviolet Light Disinfection systems Determining system dose delivery
  • Will spadefish be the next aquaculture species? - Initial success in the hatchery shows promise for the future

PROFILE

SEQ FISH - Australian bass culture in southeast Queensland

FEATURE

KELP GROUPER - Japanese researchers test effect of water flow in larval rearing tank

THE BUSINESS OF HATCHERIES  By Diogo Thomaz

Redundancy in Hatchery Protocols: Why, Where and How?

SHOWCASE

  • Collaboration promotes reproductive technologies for aquaculture
  • New fish health company specializes in custom vaccines
  • New UK research lab overcomes unanticipated hurdles
  • US and Chilean companies partner-up in vaccine agreement

RECIRC IN ACTION

  • Salmon tank farm gets go-ahead in BC - Canadian government helps fund recirc project for commercial growout
  • PROFILE: NEOMAR’S OCEANLOOP - German recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) specialist Neomar GmbH develops a commercial-scale inland solution using traditional land-based marine aquarium model.