State Newsletters - Kentucky

Kentucky Aquatic Farming Newsletter (former Kentucky Fish Farming Newsletter)

• Vol. 20, No. 2 Summer 2007 (PDF 12 MB) - Kentucky Aquaculture Association (KAA) Annual Workshop and Annual Meeting, Koi Production Demonstration, 2006 Fish Disease Cases Diagnosed at the Kentucky State University Fish Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, New AQUAFLOR®-CA1 Conditionally Approved By FDA for Controlling Columnaris in Catfish, FDA Detains Imports of Farm-Raised Chinese Seafood, Keeping Ponds Pretty (and Usable), Culturing Paddlefish Fingerlings at Kentucky Wastewater Treatment Plant, Aquaculture Safety & Health: A 5-Year Study Launched, West Virginia Trout School set for September 17 and 18, 2007, Freshwater Prawn Harvest Dates
• Vol. 20, No. 1 Winter 2007 (PDF 1.68 MB) - FEDERAL ORDER, Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia, VHS Fact Sheet, 2007 American Heartland Aquaculture Conference, Economics of Micro-Scale Tilapia (Oreochromis aureus), Processing in Kentucky’s Mobile Processing Unit (MPU), Status of Rotenone Availability as a Fish Toxicant for Pond Renovation in Kentucky, 2005 Aquaculture Census Shows Significant Growth, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Permits Reservoir Ranching of Paddlefish in Kentucky Water Supply Lakes, Use of Common and Ornamental (Koi) Carp to Control Filamentous Algae and Rooted Plants in Kentucky Aquaculture Ponds, Purchase Area Catfish Farm For Sale
• Vol. 19, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2006 (PDF 1.68 MB) - Feeding Practical Diets Containing Different Protein Levels, With or Without Fish Meal, on Growth and Survival of Male and Female Red Claw Crayfish, Grown in Ponds, Urban Fishing Program, Process Your Aquaculture Produce in the Mobile Processing Unit (MPU), Take A Number, Mercury in Fish, What You Need to Know About Mercury in Fish and Shellfish.
• Vol. 18, No. 4 Winter 2005 (PDF 313k) - KAA Workshop Agenda, Major Aquaculture Drug Approval for Florfenicol, Feed Types, Rates, & Methods for Freshwater Prawn, Evaluation of an "Organic" Diet for Freshwater Prawn Production, Start Planning Now for Next Spring's Shrimp Stocking, The Effect of Different Types of Substrate on Survival and Growth of Freshwater Prawn, Seafood Consumption Reaches Record Levels in 2004.
• Vol. 18, No. 3 Summer/Fall 2005 (PDF 707k) - KAA Annual Meeting in Somerset, Urban Fishing Opportunity, Organic Aquaculture Criteria (Letter from KY Department of Agriculture), 2005 Prawn Harvest Schedule, McCord's Shrimp/Tilapia Festival and A Taste of Clark County, Economies of Small Scale Freshwater Prawn Processing in Kentucky, Preliminary Studies on the Intensification of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) Fingerling Production, Removing Fish Meal and Lowering Protein in Australian Red Claw Crayfish Diets When Grown Indoors, Hydrogen Peroxide (H₂O₂) may have Potential for Use as as Algaecide and for pH Control in Freshwater Prawn Ponds.
• Vol. 18, No. 2 Spring 2005 (PDF 585k) - Recent Feeds and Feeding Research in Catfish, Purchase Area Aquaculture Corporation, Kentucky Prawns Bound for the Big Apple, Comparison of Polyculture Production of Fresh water Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) with Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) Stocked either as "Free Range" or Confined in Cages, Prisoners Raise Prawn and Tilapia at Boyle County's Northpoint Training Center, A Comparison of Pond Production of Juvenile Prawns Stocked as 30 and 60 Day Nursed Juveniles, New Legislation to help make animal drugs available for limited uses, minor species: What it means and where we go.
• Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2005 (PDF 90k) - Kentucky Aquaculture Association Annual Workshop—on Advanced Culture Techniques of Kentucky Species agenda.
• Vol. 17, No. 3, Summer/Fall 2004 (PDF 441k) - 2004 Kentucky Freshwater Shrimp Harvest Schedule, Economics of Low-Tech Channel Catfish Farming in Kentucky, Experience with Teaching the Online Course "Fish Genetics," Letters from the Western Regional Chapter of the Kentucky Aquaculture Association President.
• Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring 2004 (PDF 263k) - KAA Annual Meeting Announcement, KSU Aquaculture courses offered for Fall 2004 semester, Science Study Actually Shows that Farmed Salmon is a Healthy Food, COOL Article, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Article: Regulations and Forms, Production Guidelines for Small-scale and Home-Use Catfish Farming, Overview of the Rainbow Trout Industry in Kentucky, SRAC Summary of Projects.
• Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2004 (PDF 559k) - Trade Adjustment Assistance for Catfish Farmers, Form FSA-229: Application for Trade Adjustment and Assistance, Effects of Polyculture of Nile Tilapia at Two Densities with Freshwater Prawn, Evaluation of Transport Technologies for Live Hauling Adult Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Freshwater Prawn Farming for a Wholesale Market: Is it Possible in Kentucky?, Evaluation of Processing Traits of Male and Female Red Claw Crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus Fed Practical Diets Containing Various Protein Levels.
• Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2003 (PDF 491k) - USDA Announces $34 million for Catfish Feed Assistance Program, KAA Membership Letter, 2003 Prawn Harvest Dates, 2004 American Heartland Aquaculture Conference, Telly Award, Research Update for Red Claw: Based on 2002 Pond Production Data, Fish Meal Replacement and the Use of Brewers Grains with Yeast in Red Claw Crayfish Diets.
• Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2003 (PDF 120k) - Pre-season shrimp pond prep tips to help stabilize water quality, organic fertilization in production ponds, importance of the fee fishing industry to small scale aquaculture development in Kentucky, Kentucky farm numbers increase, shrimp now No. 1 in U.S.A., prawns Espanola recipe, sweet and sour shrimp recipe, shrimp Creole recipe.
• Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall/Winter 2002 (PDF 119k) - 2002 Kentucky prawn production, low-input shrimp farming, prawn research update, Australian red claw crayfish in Kentucky, shrimp growers get $400,000 grant.
• Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer/Fall 2002 (PFD 1120k )- Shrimp harvest dates, visiting scientists, Miles Lange, small-scale catfish farming, marketing outlet for Kentucky aquaculturists, catfish production, Diamond Lake.
• Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2002 (PDF 194k) - Gypsum to control pH in shrimp ponds, effect of different feeds and feeding technologies on prawn production, pond pH and ammonia toxicity, red claw crayfish, a new aquaculture species for Kentucky.
• Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2002 (PDF 2270k) - Water quality, shrimp pond preparation, farming of a different sort, 2001 fish disease cases at KSU fish disease diagnostic lab, alkalinity and hardness in production ponds,  
• Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2001 (PDF 84k) - Feeding channel catfish, part 2, dietary protein concentration and stocking density, national catfish production.
• Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2001 (PDF 771k) - Feeding practices for channel catfish production, shrimp feeding table, outlook for hybrid striped bass production for Kentucky, instructions for Kentucky aquaculture production system grant application, faster growing catfish, USDA Strain 103,
• Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2001 (PDF 557k) - Fish meal replacement in diets and the effects of feeding frequency on growth and body composition of sunshine bass, Kentucky Department of Agriculture Grant introduces Vo-Ag students to aquaculture, permits required for aquaculture in Kentucky, pond aeration, 2000 fish disease cases, two new aquacultural scientists join KSU in Frankfort,
• Vol. 13 No. 3, Summer/Fall 2000 (PDF 5610k) - System profile, pond production, hybrid bluegill profile, crappie profile, fishing pond stocking, the shortest yard, tax exemption forms, catfish production in nearby states, aquaculture web sites.
• Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2000 (PDF 5050k) - Largemouth bass, paddlefish, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, KSU aid aquaculture entrepreneurs - partners open shrimp nursery, the purchase area aquaculture cooperative April 2000 newsletter, aquaculture venture may help to diversify region's economy.
• Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2000 (PDF 370k) - Effectiveness of plant and animal oils for control of air breathing insects prior to stocking freshwater prawn ponds, the effect of hauling density on survival of juvenile freshwater prawns, system profile - raceways and flow through tank fish culture systems, 1999 fish disease cases, purchase area aquaculture cooperative activities.
• Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 1999 (PDF 471k) - Kentucky Department of Agriculture awards grants to aquaculture industry, aquaculture is named the KSU program of distinction, hybrid striped bass, freshwater prawns, grader construction, permits required for aquaculture in Kentucky.
• Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1999 (PDF 45k) - Catfish farming in Kentucky overview, tilapia: a potential species for Kentucky fish farms, aquatic plants: a new crop for Kentucky's water farmers.
• Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1999 (PDF 158k) - Addition of artificial substrate to prawn production ponds, the effect of stocking density on growth and feed conversion of yellow perch reared in cages in polyculture with freshwater prawns, 1998 fish disease cases, sustainable aquaculture: concepts and perceptions, opportunity for baitfish production in Kentucky, species profile: rainbow trout.
• Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall 1995 and Vol. 8 No. 4 Winter 1995-96 (PDF 748k) - Sustainable channel catfish farming: low management production through modified stocking and feeding practices, growout of largemouth bass on feed (No. 3), hybrid striped bass production in Kentucky, managing livestock ponds, freshwater shrimp in Kentucky (No. 4).
• Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 1995 and Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1995 (PDF 1020k) - Fish disease videos available, low regulatory priority aquaculture drugs, freshwater prawn demonstration results and outlook for future projects in Kentucky (No. 1), 1994 fish disease cases, handy conversion tables, growth comparison of caged hybrid striped bass fed a 36070 and a 42070 protein diet (No. 2).