New Technologies in Aquaculture: Improving Production Efficiency, Quality and Environmental Management

With well-known editors and an international team of contributors, this book begins by focusing on the genetic improvement of farmed species and control of reproduction.  It then reviews key issues in health, diet and husbandry, such as the control of viral and parasitic diseases, diet and husbandry techniques to improve disease resistance, advances in diets for particular fish species and the impact of harmful algal bloom on shellfisheries aquaculture. Chapters examine the design of different aquaculture production systems, including offshore technologies, tank-based recirculating systems and ponds, and key environmental issues and concludes with coverage of farming new species.

Gavin Burnell is Director of the Aquaculture and Fisheries Development Centre and Lecturer in the Department of Zoology, Ecology and Plant Science at University College Cork, Ireland. His research is currently focused on the interactions between aquaculture/fisheries and the environment, artificial diets and nutrition of gastropod mollusks, restoration of shellfisheries and mesocosms as alternative bivalve hatcheries.

Geoff Allan is Research Leader in Aquaculture for the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Australia, and Director of the Port Stephens Fisheries Centre. He conducts and supervises aquaculture research on freshwater and marine fish, mollusks and crustaceans within New South Wales.