LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (WVLT)– Fresh is always better, however, most of our food travels for thousands of miles before it hits our table. But a local business is trying to change that by using “aquaponics”. Read more …
May 182012
May 102012
Twine Line is the printed voice of Ohio Sea Grant. The award-winning, quarterly newsletter covers issues, events, and research related to Lake Erie and the Great Lakes. Geared toward the public, agencies, media and elected officials, each 12-page issue includes three pages devoted to Stone Laboratory information provided by the Friends of Stone Lab.
In the latest issue, the seven issues facing Lake Erie:
- Sea Grant Leadership Academy Trains Local Officials
- Recycling Trash into Treasure
- Is Nitrogen Another Concern for Lake Erie?
- Preparing Great Lakes Communities for Climate Change
- Climate-Proofing Science Education in the Great Lakes
- Add Lake Erie Science to Your Vacation Plans
- Student Spotlight: Lisa Bowerz
May 102012
As her once-thriving construction business dried up after the crash — as she found herself spending more of her days laying off employees and fighting with customers to get paid — Gina Cavaliero spent her evenings searching the Internet for a recession-proof business.
She was looking for something, anything, that would not vaporize with a market downturn. Finally, along with business partner Tonya Penick, she decided that when the going gets tough, the tough need to get growing. Read more …
May 092012
Five years ago, algae was the “it” feedstock in the biofuel realm. The idea of taking an organism that feeds off of CO2 and using it to create fuel was as intoxicating to research scientists as it was to venture capitalists. Financing was available to fund the placement of extremely expensive photobioreactors next to power plants. Decades-old research from the National Renewable Energy Lab proved that some strains of algae could effectively be used to create high-grade fuels. Startup CEOs talked of being able to produce algae-based biofuels cheaply and at a large scale within the three to five years. Read more …
Recirculating technology, a key part of future aquaculture Technology that reduces water consumption by around 98 per cent, is a key feature of new recirculating systems now available to the global aquaculture industry, according to an aquaculture specialist speaking before this week’s Australasian Aquaculture Conference 2012 conference in Melbourne.
Professor Thomas M Losordo, who presented at the Aquaculture Recirculating Technology Short-Course at the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), said such technology must be part of the future for the rapidly growing aquaculture industry. Read more …
With demand for food growing at nearly twice supply in recent years, aquaculture will have a vital role in addressing future global food security concerns, a specialist in science communication told delegates at the Australasian Aquaculture Conference 2012 in Melbourne on Friday.
“By 2060 we will need around 600 quadrillion calories every single day to feed the human race,” said Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine. Mr Cribb believes the answer to this major food security problem could be aquaculture, which may become one of the boom industries of the 21st century and potentially the world’s largest livestock sector. Read more …
OCTABlog has interviewed aquaculture expert, Bill Manci. In the interview he talked policy and food security. Mr. Manci also shared his thoughts on:
- Recirculating Aquaculture Systems
- Starting an aquaculture operation
- Expanding an aquaculture operation
Bill Manci, president of Fisheries Technology Associates, Inc., created the company in 1982 after receiving his formal training in zoology and fisheries science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and after a six-year career in aquaculture research. Bill has been a consultant since 1980 and has worked on many types of aquaculture and fish farming projects throughout the U.S.A. and other nations. He also has published more than 300 technical and popular articles on the subjects of aquaculture and fish farming, and served as an expert witness in aquaculture and fisheries-related litigation.
Read the interview here.
When it comes to the food used to raise fish in aquaculture “farms,” it seems that you may get what you pay for. In a new study, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) looked at the health effects of raising farmed fish on a diet incorporating less than the usual amount of fishmeal—a key but expensive component of current commercial fish food products. They learned that reduced fishmeal diets may be cheaper, but the fish were less healthy. Read more …
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The fishing openers last weekend were slow, but catch rates should pick up as warmer temperatures push into the state, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday in its weekly fishing report. The DNR said water levels are low in some of the rivers and inland lakes so use caution especially at the boat launches. Read more …
May 032012
A newly constructed alternative energy system passed its final electrical inspection at N.C. State University’s Marine Aquaculture Research Center (MARC) in Smyrna, N.C., U.S.A. A demonstration hybrid photovoltaic (solar)-wind system will power pumps, as well as heat and cool water for application to the state’s growing aquaculture industry. In 2011, N.C. State University’s Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) was awarded $253,501 in funding for the project, part of a $4.6 million Green Business Fund Award granted through the N.C. Department of Commerce, as well as an additional $37, 000 from private donors. Read more …
