Browsing by Subject "Aquaculture"
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(2022-04-19)Disease outbreaks in intensive aquaculture, particularly from bacterial pathogens, represent major constraints to efficient fish production, necessitating development of novel and innovative disease treatment and prevention ...
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(2021-04-26)Cryptobenthic fishes (CFs) occupy a critical functional group in the trophodynamics of their respective ecological system. The percomorph suborder Blennioidei encompasses ~900 species in size families of mostly tropical ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The dynamics of growth in aquatic organisms were mathematically described in this study. The growth rate equation, a function of organism weight, food availability and oxygen concentration, was developed employing a Growth ...
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(2019-04-03)Improvements in production efficiency of aquaculture are necessary to provide seafood to feed a growing human population. Therefore, a series of studies were conducted to evaluate two different means of improving growth ...
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(2019-04-11)Aquaculture is a fast-growing industry on a global scale in which the use of antibiotics and chemotherapeutics are being discouraged. Prebiotic and probiotic supplements are promising antibiotic alternatives that may aid ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)The feasibility of polyculturing Macrobrachium rosenbergii and Tilapia aurea was examined in 500 m('2) earthen ponds in central Texas. Monoculture of each species was also undertaken to provide comparative data. Secondary ...
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(2015-07-17)Red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, is a highly prized marine teleost whose supply largely depends on aquaculture. Commercial diets for red drum still contain considerable amounts of fishmeal (FM), which has become a scarce and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Nutrient delivery to aquatic larvae must be controlled before their nutrition can be critically studied. Conventional feed particles and microcapsules for larval shrimp have poor water stability and/or poor nutrient ...
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(2012-07-16)The expansion of aquaculture has increased demand for fishmeal supplies around the world; this, in turn, has resulted in dramatic increases in the cost of fishmeal, which has sparked interest in alternative feedstuffs. The ...
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(2021-12-06)Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are a class of microbially-produced biodegradable biopolymers obtained from renewable feedstocks. Due to variations in the properties of PHA, they have received growing attention to develop ...