Salmon Farming Av Odd-Ivar Lekang

Aquaculture production is expanding worldwide in both volumeand scope, with a number of new species being introduced toaquaculture every year.Salmon Farmingprovides an overview of aquaculture productionsystems focusing on Atlantic salmon farming, which willenable users to:produce broodstock, juveniles and adult fishdevelop a production plan for juvenile and ongrowing farmsevaluate and optimize the key working operations on juvenileand ongrowing farmsidentify the factors that are important for economic and sustainable productionidentify the factors that affect the rate of production, how these factors can be changed, and what effectssuch changes haveadopt the best procedures for season-independent smoltproductionunderstand water quality requirements and evaluate thesuitability based on water analysisprepare documents for production control and proposeamendmentsprepare working plans for smolt production and ongrowingproduction farmsestablish maintenance routines/plans for smolt productionand ongrowing productionestimate the investment and running cost for the maincomponents of smolt and ongrowing farmsremain up to date with the laws and regulations that needto be considered in aquaculture production planninginternationallystay abreast of new trends in the industry.Salmon Farminggives an overview of aquaculture production systems focusing on Atlantic salmon farming. However, much of the subject coverage and overall structure of the book are directly transferable to other species, with much of the core of the book being species-independent and applicable internationally.