Sustainable aquaculture: Recent submissions
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Feed the future aquaculture project: Draft quarterly progress report. Jan-March 2013
(2013)Type: ReportThe Feed the Future Aquaculture project is a five year transformative investment in aquaculture focused on 20 southern districts in Barisal, Khulna and Dhaka divisions, Bangladesh, which started in October 2011. This report ... -
Improving aquaculture feed in Bangladesh: From feed ingredients to farmer profit to safe consumption
(2013)Type: Working PaperUse of manufactured feeds in aquaculture in Bangladesh has grown rapidly over the last five years. More than 1 million tonnes of commercially formulated feeds and 0.3-0.4 million tonnes of farm-made feeds were produced in ... -
Aquaculture
(2013)Type: Book ChapterBiophysical impacts of aquaculture, with consequences for biodiversity, vary with species and culture systems and include issues such as: nutrient enrichment/removal, chemicals, land use, species introductions, genetic ... -
Eco-certification of farmed seafood: will it make a difference?
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleEco-certification is widely considered a tool for reducing environmental impacts of aquaculture, but what are the likely environmental outcomes for the world’s fastest growing animal-food production sector? This article ... -
WorldFish incubator: Sustainable aquaculture made possible
(2013)Type: ReportThe Greater Harvest and Economic Returns from Shrimp (GHERS) is an initiative of Poverty Reduction by Increasing the Competitiveness of Enterprises (PRICE) project, funded by USAID. The objective of GHERS was to increase ... -
Algal bioproducts derived from suspended solids in intensive land-based aquaculture
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleLand-based aquaculture produces suspended solids in culture pond and settlement pond waters that could be harvested as a bioresource. The first aim of this study is to quantify, characterise, and subsequently harvest the ... -
Striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, Sauvage, 1878) aquaculture in Bangladesh: an overview
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleFarming of the striped catfish, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, is a major aquaculture activity in Bangladesh, particularly in the district of Mymensingh. However, pangasius farm management practices and the socio-economic ... -
The role of infectious disease impact in informing decision-making for animal health management in aquaculture systems in Bangladesh
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThe aquaculture sector in Bangladesh is an important employer and a significant source of foreign exchange. In addition, it contributes significantly to food security due to the role of fish in peoples’ diets, the most ... -
Fish consumption in urban Lusaka: The need for aquaculture to improve targeting of the poor
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleAquaculture in Zambia is growing and likely to play an important role for food and nutrition security in the country. While outputs in capture fisheries and small-scale aquaculture are stagnating, commercial aquaculture ... -
Aquaculture in the Ayeyarwady Basin
Type: Internal ReportThe Ayeyarwady State of the Basin Assessment (SOBA) is one of the major knowledge outputs of the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (AIRBM) Project prepared by Hydro-Informatics Centre (HIC). SOBA aims to inform ... -
Innovation platforms in agricultural research for development: Ex-ante appraisal of the purposes and conditions under which innovation platforms can contribute to agricultural development outcomes
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleInnovation platforms are fast becoming part of the mantra of agricultural research for development projects and programmes. Their basic tenet is that stakeholders depend on one another to achieve agricultural development ... -
Towards improved practices in Life Cycle Assessment of seafood and other aquatic products
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThis editorial provides introduction to the 13 contributions to this special issue which present inventory data on many previously undescribed capture fisheries, farming systems, geographical regions, inventory flows and ... -
Tilapia lake virus: a threat to the global tilapia industry?
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleTilapia lake virus (TiLV) is a recently described virus affecting wild and farmedtilapines. At present, it has been reported on three continents (Asia, Africa andSouth America) and the number of countries where the agent ... -
Measuring the potential for sustainable intensification of aquaculture in Bangladesh using Life Cycle Assessment
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleAquaculture has only recently begun to make significant contributions to the global food system but is undergoing rapid growth and intensification. Identifying the most sustainable intensification options for aquaculture ... -
An assessment of health management practices and occupational health hazards in tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) and freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) aquaculture in Bangladesh
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleDiseases have been recognized as the major obstacle to the shrimp (Penaeus monodon) and prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) aquaculture production in Bangladesh. The present study assessed the range of aquatic animal health ... -
Overview of Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV)
(2018)Type: Conference PaperSince 2009, tilapia aquaculture has been threatened by mass die-offs in Israel and Ecuador, which is caused by a novel Orthomyxo-like (RNA) virus named as Tilapia lake virus (TiLV). This has been reported as a newly emerging ... -
The devil is in the details - the carbon footprint of a shrimp
(2018)Type: OtherLetter to the editor on the carbon emission of shrimp culture on mangrove forests as reported by Kauffman and colleagues. -
Sierra Leone aquaculture assessment with special emphasis on Tonkolili and Bombali districts
(2018)Type: ReportThis assessment set out to investigate why fish farming has spread in Tonkolili District yet been poorly adopted in neighboring Bombali District. The purpose was to analyze what was working in Tonkolili but not in Bombali ... -
Aquaculture engineering training program. From 25-29 March 2018 in Abbassa, Egypt
(2018)Type: OtherThe aquaculture engineering training program is a five-day, hands-on course designed for professionals working in aquaculture in Africa and other parts of the world. By the end of the training, participants will have gained ... -
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH): Proposed research in fish feeds and nutrition
(2018)Type: PosterThis is a poster presentation on WorldFish Research in Fish Feeds and Nutrition at the 18th International Symposium on Fish Nutrition and Feeding (ISFNF 2018), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 3rd-7th, 2018. (Poster ...
