January 2004
- Field Day and Groundbreaking in Martinsville
- Deployment of Triploid Oyster Goes Forward
- Linking Fish Waste to Ornamental Horticulture
- F-2 Flounder Spawning First
- Cobia Come to Virginia Tech Aquaculture Center
- Towards Organic Fish Feeds
- Aquaculture Center Renovations Keep Program Progressive
- Heidi Sung Appointed Project Manager of New Office for Risk Assessment and Management
- Restructured Product Offers Potential New Use for Short-fin Squid
- Hurricane Isabel Struck Hard, but the Virginia Seafood AREC in Hampton is Recovering at a Steady Pace
- 2004 Recirculating Aquaculture Conference Symposia Set
- Shrimp Culture a Possible Added Use of Tilapia Effluent
- Achieving the Vision - Aquaculture in Canada
- Related Studies Explore Scombrotoxin Triggers on Fishing Vessels, Evaluate High Pressure Processing for Prevention & Control
- Sea Grant's New Nat'l Communications Chair Hails from Virginia
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Aquaculture
Waste Management Projects Enthuse Aquaculturists and Local Residents
For
more than a decade, Blue Ridge Aquaculture (Martinsville, VA) has been
the major U.S. producer of live tilapia, which is sold in markets from
Washington, DC to Toronto, Canada.
more...
VMRC
Approves Plan Developed Through Use of Virginia Tech Suminoe Oyster
Risk Assessment/Risk Management Model
The
native eastern oyster population in Chesapeake Bay has declined due
to habitat degradation, over-harvest, and disease- and parasite-mediated
mortality. Efforts to restore the eastern oyster population have been
hindered by persistent disease pressures and by habitat degradation.
more...
Linking
Fish Waste to Ornamental Horticulture
The
capacity to recycle aquaculture waste products into a high-value soil
amendment can promote economic and environmental sustainability in a
diversified farm. Composted wastes can be used to aid in the production
of ornamental horticulture crops, the fastest growing sector of agriculture
both in Virginia and the United States. more...
F-2
Flounder Spawning First
At
the Virginia Seafood Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Hampton,
aquaculture specialist Michael Schwarz recently spawned 2 million F-2
summer flounder fry from F-1 broodstock housed at the Center, working
in conjunction with Ewen McLean and Steven Craig.more...
Cobia
Come to Virginia Tech Aquaculture Center
Over
the last 12 months Virginia Tech aquaculture researchers have been concentrating
on a marine aquaculture candidate species called cobia (Rachycentron
canadum).more...
Towards
Organic Fish Feeds
In
recent years, the media has drawn attention to the presence of various
contaminants in wild fish flesh. Indeed, a number of "scare"
stories have also appeared regarding farmed salmon from the Pacific
Northwest and European waters.more...
Aquaculture
Center Renovations Keep Program Progressive
The
last year has seen a flurry of activity at Virginia Tech's Aquaculture
Center, which has moved one stage closer to completing Phase I of a
planned three-phase development program. A vital component of the Center's
restructuring has been the retrofitting of many of its recirculating
systems together with the emplacement of a variety of new experimental
tanks.more...
Program
to Offer Info on Risk Assessment and Management to Industry
Virginia
Tech, working in collaboration with other universities and organizations,
has identified the need for an office of Risk Assessment and Management
to be housed at a Northern Virginia campus in Old Town Alexandria.more...
Restructured
Product Offers Potential New Use for Short-finned Squid
Squid
consumption is increasing rapidly across the United States and Canada.
Once considered primarily an ethnic food popular in Southern Europe
and Asia, the product is now gaining widespread acceptance in US markets.
more...
Hurricane
Isabel Struck Hard, but the Virginia Seafood AREC in Hampton
is Recovering at a Steady Pace
Hurricane
Isabel was less than kind to the VSAREC aquaculture facilities and fish; however
things could have been much worse. While the majority of onsite fish died as
a result of 5 feet of standing water within the building, the valuable F-1 summer
flounder broodstock survived as they were chilled down to 45°F before Isabel
hit in order to minimize metabolic activity.more...
2004
Recirculating Aquaculture Conference Symposia Set
Next
summer's International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture (July
22-25, 2004) is on track be the biggest and broadest meeting to date,
focusing exclusively on the science and application of recirculation
technology for raising freshwater and marine species of fish and shellfish,
as well other aquatic species. Conference organizers recently announced
the topics to be covered in the Conference's ten symposia.more...
Shrimp
Culture a Possible Added Use of Tilapia Effluent
As
a first year Ph.D. student in Environmental Engineering, David Kuhn
will be investigating the feasibility of raising the marine Pacific
white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in freshwater effluent water from
a tilapia farm in Southern Virginia. Shrimp is a high commodity item
in the US ($4.75 billion annual market revenue).more...
Achieving
the Vision - Aquaculture in Canada
The
Canadian Commissioner for Aquaculture Development, Yves Bastien released his
report, Achieving the Vision, at Aquaculture Canada 2003, the national forum
on aquaculture sponsored by the Aquaculture Association of Canada. more...
Related
Studies Explore Scombrotoxin Triggers on Fishing Vessels, Evaluate High
Pressure Processing for Prevention & Control
A
pair of related studies scheduled to take place in 2004-2005 will evaluate
the problem of temperature abuse in the harvesting and processing of
scombroid fish, as well as the potential usefulness of high hydrostatic
pressure processing to curtail the formation of scombrotoxins in the
fish. The studies will be conducted by VT Food Science and Technology
research associate Stephanie Penn. more...
Sea
Grant's New Nat'l Communications Chair Hails from Virginia
Virginia
Sea Grant Communications Coordinator Pauli Hayes was elected in November
to be the new Chair-elect for National Sea Grant Communications. Hayes
joined Virginia Sea Grant in March of 2000 and had recently served as
the regional Chair for the Mid-Atlantic region.
more...
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