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COVID-19

USDA's Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish (ELAP) May 2021

On March 23rd, 2020 Virginia Tech Seafood AREC and The Ohio State University Extension initiated an online survey of the U.S. aquaculture, aquaponics, and allied businesses. This survey was designed to capture and quantify the effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the aquaculture, aquaponics, and allied industries. The survey was distributed at the conclusion of every quarter for 2020, to attempt to capture the evolving impacts of COVID-19 over time. Sixteen Virginia Cooperative Extension Fact Sheets and accompanying Appendices summarizing the survey results have been developed.

Results were also disaggregated based on species and region of the U.S. as applicable.

Please use the following link to read the fact sheets and appendixes: https://www.arec.vaes.vt.edu/arec/virginia-seafood/research/Impacts_of_COVID19.html 

Additional information:

Quarter 4 survey video

Journal of the World Aquaculture Society editorial

Journal of Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy manuscript

Effects of COVID 19 on US Aquaculture, Aquaponics and Allied Businesses (webinar replay)

Aquaculture

Fish Health

Fish Nutrition

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2020 Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative and North Central Regional Aquaculture Center webinar

2019 Iowa Aquaculture Conference Presentations

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Quick Reference Guides

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Mobile Apps

  • AquaCide - This comprehensive visual guide helps you select the most effective herbicides for all aquatic vegetation classes

  • AmmoniaCalc - Allows the user to input simple, easily measured water chemistry measurements such as pH and temperature to instantly calculate the un-ionized ammonia concentration

  • AquaPlant - Helps pond owners and their advisors in the identification and management of aquatic vegetation

  • AquaRef - This guide is packed full of useful  information including pond filling time, pumping rate equivalents, discharge rates from standpipes, net mesh sizes for grading fish, length/weight relationships for fish, oxygen saturation points, pounds of fish that can be hauled at temperature, egg development stages, stocking guides, fertilization rates, and much more

  • PondCalc - This tool allows the user to quickly and easily calculate the surface area of any shaped pond and then calculate the number of acre feet, all without having to do any math

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