From the editor

• What does sustainability mean for aquafeeds

News

• New research in microbial management/ASC launches consultations

Shrimp Culture

• Data sharing for disease management in shrimp farming: More to gain
  The real value is when all segments of the supply chain work together to support swift action. By
  Pau Badia Grimalt and Anton Immink
• Artemia decapsulation: Transitioning from tradition
  A more efficient and sustainable method to increase quality and survival of harvested nauplii.

Disease Management

• Study confirms that a broad spectrum aquatic disinfectant is highly effective
  against tilapia lake virus
  Biosecurity and disinfectants work to reduce occurrence and severity of the virus, say Win
  Surachetpong and Tanja Gerhar
• Infection of chalimus stages of caligid copepods in the buccal cavity of
  cultured hybrid grouper
  Leong Tak Seng surveyed ectoparasites in crimson snappers and hybrid groupers in a cage farm
  in Malaysia.
• Tilapia lake virus: Clinical signs, disease diagnosis and prevention
  Raanan Ariav says understanding the role of different transmission vectors and how to regulate
  them is crucial.

Feed Technology

• Effects of dose variation of an exogenous enzyme complex in diets for
  hybrid red tilapia
  A higher dose supplemented into diets enhanced health and growth, say Phuong Do, Liem T.
  Pham, Tu L.C. Tran, Hien T.T. Tran, Philippe Mahl and Hoang Phan
• Inhibitory capacity of a microbial enhanced protein against Vibrio spp. in
  Pacific white shrimp
  There is a protective effect against the Vibrio species associated with AHPND. By Darwin
  Zambrano and Sergio F. Nates
• 2020 – Watershed year for alternatives to fishmeal and fish oil
  Kevin Fitzsimmons discusses novel alternative ingredients to effectively displace the high cost
  fishmeal and oil in aquafeeds.
• Hepatic health–A key challenge in aquaculture
  Álvaro Rodríguez explains how optimal fish liver conditions assure growth performance and
  farm profitability.
• A new feed prophylactic to improve resistance of white shrimp post larvae
  against EHP
  Stephane Frouel, Julie Castier, Maxime Hugonin and Thomas Pierrot report on a promising
  prophylactic application during EHP outbreaks in white shrimp.

Marketing

• Evaluating retail consumer behaviour and shrimp purchases in China
  There is a preference for live and darker in colour shrimp, relating these traits to freshness,
  better quality and health. By Thiago Soligo, Chiow Yen Liew, Daranee Seguin, Eduardo
  Yamashita and Darryl Jory
• Sustainable aquaculture: What does it mean?
  Safe products for human nutrition and global food security are crucial for an inclusive social,
  environmental, and economic sustainability, says Benedict Standen.

Industry Review - Marine Fish

• Hybrid grouper farming: Manoeuvring colossal lows in demand in 2020
  A year-long impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the demand of live fish required strategic
  changes at a farm.
• Managing ectoparasites in farmed marine fish
  What is known of the life cycle of major sea lice, skin flukes and leeches and how to manage
  them.
• Integrated cage-cum-pond culture of Indian pompano
  A high density multi-species fish culture approach. By Sekar Megarajan, Ritesh Ranjan, Biji
  Xavier, Ponnaganti Shiva, Shubhadeep Ghosh and Boby Ignatius

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