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Suggests ways to determine whether aquaculture is a good business. Selecting a product; Your competition; Determining market demand; Market segmentation; Your market niche; Product distinction; Pricing strategy; Promotion and advertising.

Focuses on marketing in aquaculture. Strategy of promotion; Information about product quality; Common forms of crustaceans; Culture species chosen to process and market; Quality assurance practices; Competitive pricing; Promotional goals.

Gives advice to aquaculturists on understanding the marketing climate for fish and how products are marketed. Discusses different management approaches, product demand and legal, social and political factors affecting marketing; Production oriented approach; Environmental oriented approach; Species oriented approach.

Reports on several research developments in aquaculture. Silver carp and phytoplankton; Gypsum in ponds; Polyculture of trout and catfish; Salt to control ichthyophthiriasis; Stocking densities of hybrid striped bass fry.

Outlines the chain of events that collectively accounts for quality assurance. Role of the culturist; Management practices during growout; Harvesting and handling; Processing objectives; The wholesaler and retailer; Bruising of fish.

Presents an update on recent advances in crawfish farming research. New red claw crawfish species; Crawfish feeding and forage systems; Better harvesting methods; Rotation of crawfish and prawns; Giant Malaysian prawns.

Presents information of the fertilization programs used around the world for various species. Use of swine manure; Use of cow manure; Use of human sewage.

Presents information on a fertilization program for various species of fish in the aquaculture industry in the different countries around the world, including the channel catfish, trout and salmon. Details on the application of of fertilizers for individual ponds; Reference to the different types of fish ponds and their management; Information on the type of bacteria which can be found in fish ponds.

Focuses on the preparation of applying fertilizers into fish ponds in the U.S. Mode of applying inorganic fertilizers; Ratio of N-P-K mixture; Determination of the percentage of every elements found in every fertilizer.

Presents information on organic and inorganic fertilizers as the two basic types of pond fertilizers. How organic fertilizers are classified; Advantages of using organic fertilizers; When inorganic fertilizers are termed completed; Suggestions that chemical compounds used to fertilize pond water are the same as those use for agricultural crops.

This article focuses on the environmental and conservation considerations of water management in ponds. Wastes from the culture species along with uneaten feed may cause a pollution problem when ponds are drained. Normally feces and uneaten feed are diluted and gradually mineralized to nutrients that are cycled hack into phytoplankton. However, organic wastes may accumulate faster than they can be used by microorganisms if the culture species is stocked at high densities or fed heavily. According to authors C. E. Boyd and Y. Musig, there are ways to improve the quality of effluents and reduce their volume as follows: use quality feed, limit the quantity of feed used, use feeding practices that reduce the quantity of unconsumed feed, employ efficient aeration techniques, exchange no more water than necessary, do not dispose of sediment from pond bottoms into effluent canals and dry pond bottoms between crops. Moreover, water is one of the most precious natural resources. Although water exchange often improves water quality, this use must be balanced with conservation of water. In Taiwan, the lavish use of fresh water to dilute salinity in shrimp ponds resulted in land subsidence in some instances. Then there is the danger of saltwater intrusion into freshwater aquifers. In some regions of the south, the water table has dropped significantly because of the large amount of water withdrawn for catfish farming.

Presents advice on water management in ponds. Description of a carbonate buffer system; Causes of acidity in water exposed to air; Importance of alkalinity for aquaculturists in the maintenance of good water quality; Information on the overturn and stratification phenomena in ponds and lakes in temperate regions.

Deals with product development and innovations for small fish farms. Diversity of fish farming in the Philippines and Jamaica; Other uses of pond mud and pond water.

Part II. Analyzes the options for small operation and full-time vocation of fish farming. Discussion on how to start an aquaculture; Comparison of the steps involved in corn production and channel catfish farming; Importance of considering a market when choosing a species to culture.

Offers an insight on the spawning and hatching of channel catfish. Assessment on the use of ozonization in hatching channel catfish eggs; Factors that control the spawning; Role of water temperature on the hatching and spawning process.

Outlines several fundamentals in selecting new species of fish for commercial aquaculture. Water temperature requirements; Type of fish that grow well in brackish water; Growth rate of species; Feeding habits of fish.

Provides guidelines regarding the management of culture species in commercial aquaculture. Significance of the health of culture species; Advantages of diversity; Methods to increase profits in fish trade.

Presents information on channel catfish research. Theory behind compensatory growth in catfish; Cost of cryopreservation of fish sperm; Feed efficiency of blue catfish versus channel catfish; Recovery time to bring channel catfish back on flavor; Vaccination of channel catfish against enteric septicemia of catfish.

Highlights five research papers which won awards in the Aquaculture America 2000. Details on the research papers about aquaculture, animal nutrition and risk analysis of shrimp farming; Implications of the studies.

Summarizes several research findings from the Aquaculture 2000 Conference. Details on the genetics to help solve gill disease in channel catfish, use of ozonated water in hatching channel fish, culture tool, producing all male tilapia, etc.; World fish production in 1997.

Part V. Features the fundamentals of marketing aquaculture products. Common mistakes and pitfalls made by new exporters; Definition of some marketing and sales terms and procedures.

Part II. Discusses the marketing of aquaculture products. Goal of promotion; Components of advertising; Personal selling.

Focuses on the off-flavor of channel catfish flesh. Causes of the off-flavor; Prevention and control; Tips on purging the off-flavor; Tips on testing for off-flavor.

Features how to breed and care for brood catfish, whether it be fingerling production, a food fish operation or a pay lake business. Adequate but not-in-excess feeding with quality pellets or with forage fish; Types of forage species; Attention to water quality; Few pounds per pond owing to brood fishes' susceptibility to low dissolved oxygen; Salting the fish down to prevent disease outbreaks; Minimal and careful handling.

Part II. Explores the ingredients needed for a successful aquaculture operation, focusing on marketing the product economically and dealing with the intangibles. Lining up the market before pond construction and fish stocking; The worldwide appeal of shrimp; The several prerequisites of marketing; Intangibles in the salmon and catfish farming industries; The growing demand for quality fishery products; More.

Looks at several recent publications on shrimp farming. `The Oceanic Institute Shrimp Farming Manual (Intensive Shrimp Production Technology),' by James A. Wyban and James N. Sweeney; `Practical Manual for Semi-Intensive Commercial Production of Marine Shrimp,' by Jose R. Villalon; `Proceedings of the Special Session on Shrimp Farming,' edited by James Wyban and organized by George Chamberlain, Jose Villalon and James Wyban; More.

Discusses the factors to consider when selecting the best culture species for aquaculture. Economical, marketing, biological, and legal factors to consider; Three basic reasons when failures occur; Species that has the best potential for development; Information resources about aquaculture.

Presents an excerpt from the book `Fundamentals of Aquaculture.'

Discusses the role of oxygen in water management in fish ponds. Information on the sources and means of reduction of oxygen and carbon dioxide in water; Discussion of oxygen debt and demand; Details of oxygen-carbon dioxide fluctuation.

Discusses the control of White Spot disease or Icthyophthirius multifiliis on channel catfish. Background on the White Spot disease; Role of water temperature in controlling the disease; Ways to prevent and control Ich.

Deals with the digenetic trematode, a parasite that appeared in pond-grown channel catfish. Details on the parasite's life cycle and its threats to catfish; Techniques for the disruption of its life cycle; Information on the use of black carp to control the parasite.

Outlines strategies for disease prevention in aquaculture. Surveillance; Use of disease-free fish, eggs and larvae; Control of wild fish and other animals in culture ponds; Sanitation; Quarantine of diseased fish; Separation of fry from broodstock; Destruction of diseased fish; Changing the environment; Avoidance of stress-inducing conditions.

Focuses on the benefits from liming ponds. Amount of time to use; sources of lime; Application of lime; Adverse effects of excessive liming.

Reviews the video recording 'Parasite Control In Smolt Producing Units.'

Reviews the video recording 'Oxygen And Nitrogen In Fish Farming.'

Reviews the video recording 'Salmon and Trout Farming In Norway.'