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Technical Resources

COVID-19
Aquaculture
Fish Health
Fish Nutrition
Marketing/Business
Processing
Water Quality

Equipment/Supplies

Quick Reference Guides

Aquaculture Industry

Regional Aquaculture Centers

Additional Resources

Mobile Apps

Technical Resources

COVID-19

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

On March 23^rd, 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

• Deep Water Culture Aquaponic Build Educational Video

Fish Health

• General Fish Health Management  (pdf)

• Biosecurity for Aquaculture Facilities in the North Central Region  (pdf)

• Halamid® Aqua (Chloramine-T) Approval Notice  (pdf)

• FDA Answers your Questions about Fish Drugs

• Summary of VHS requirements by state  (pdf)

Fish Nutrition

• Principles of Fish Nutrition  (pdf)

Marketing/Business

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

• Aquaculture can be successful, but...., Dr. Carole Engle

2019 Iowa Aquaculture Conference Presentations

• The business of aquaculture, Dr. Carole Engle
• Introduction to planning for a successful aquaculture or aquaponics business, Dr. Carole Engle
• Strategic marketing, Dr. Carole Engle
• Keys to economic success, Dr. Carole Engle
• Why do aquaculture businesses fail?, Dr. Carole Engle

Processing

• Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network

Water Quality

• A Fish Farmers' Guide to Understanding Water Quality

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Equipment and Supplies

(**OSU does not endorse any of the products or services below. If you have a good link that we should add, please let us know!)

• Aquaculture Suppliers Association

• Aquatic Eco-Systems

• Aquatic Equipment and Design

• Aquaculture Systems Technologies (filters)

• Argent Laboratories

• Duluth Nets by H. Christiansen Co.

• Global Aquaculture Supply Co.

• Inventive Marine Products Ltd. (processing equipment)

• Keeton Industries, Inc.

• Memphis Net & Twine Co., Inc.

• Organic Pond

• Stoney Creek Equipment Co.

Quick Reference Guides

• Aquaculture Producer's Quick Reference Handbook, by Larry Dorman (pdf)

• Approved Drugs for Use in Aquaculture, US. Fish & Wildlife Service (pdf)

Aquaculture Industry

• National Strategic Plan for Federal Aquaculture Research

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

• USDA Agriculture Research Service Aquaculture Action Plan

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Regional Aquaculture Centers

• North Central Regional Aquaculture Center

• Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture

• Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center

• Southern Regional Aquaculture Center

• Western Regional Aquaculture Center

Additional Resources

• National Aquaculture Association

• North Central Regional Aquaculture Conference Presentations, Toledo

• Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development

• USDA eXtension website

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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