Southern Regional
Aquaculture Center
Extension Fact Sheets
United States Department of
Aquaculture
Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service
Regional Aquaculture Center Program
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Pond Construction
# 100 - Site Selection of Levee-Type Fish Production Ponds
PDF
(186k)
# 101
- Construction of Levee-Type Ponds for Fish Production (Revised
2002)
PDF
(93k)
# 102 - Watershed Fish Production Ponds: Site Selection and Construction
(Revised 2002)
PDF
(45k)
# 103 - Calculating
Area and Volume of Ponds and Tanks
PDF
(108k)
# 104 - Repairing Fish
Pond Levees
PDF (129k)
# 105 - Renovating
Leaky Ponds
PDF (96k)
Baitfish
# 120 - Common Farm-Raised Baitfish (Revised 2001)
PDF (104k)
# 121 - Baitfish: Feeds
and Feeding Practice (Revised 2002)
PDF (164k)
# 122 - Baitfish
Production: Enterprise Budget (Revised 1996)
PDF (54k)#
123 - Feeding
Practices for Baitfish
PDF (103k)
# 124 - Dietary Protein
and Lipid Requirements of Golden Shiners and Goldfish
PDF (105k)
# 1200
- Growing Bull Minnows for Bait
PDF (60k)
Sunfish, Shad, and other Forage
Species
# 140 - Forage Species:
Range, Description and Life History
PDF (73k)
# 141 - Forage Species:
Production Technique
PDF (87k)
# 142 - Forage
Species: Return on Investment
PDF (109k)
Cage Culture
# 160 - What is Cage
Culture?
PDF (167k)
# 161 - Cage Culture:
Site Selection and Water Quality (Revised 1997)
PDF (118k)
# 162 - Cage
Culture: Cage Construction and Placement (Revised 1997)
PDF (168k)
# 163 - Cage
Culture: Species Suitable for Cage Culture (Revised 1997)
PDF (111k)
# 164 - Cage Culture: Handling
and Feeding Caged Fish (Revised 1997)
PDF (157k)
# 165 - Cage Culture: Cage
Culture Problems
PDF (192k)
# 166 - Cage Culture:
Harvesting and Economics
PDF (34k)
# 170 - In-Pond Raceways
PDF (262k)
Catfish
# 180 - Channel Catfish: Life
History and Biology
PDF (80k)
# 181 - Feeding Catfish
Commercial Ponds (Revised 1998)
PDF (93k)
# 183 - Processing Channel Catfish
(Revised 2001)
PDF (4674k)
# 184 - Processed Catfish: Product
Forms, Packaging, Yields and Product Mix (Revised 2001)
PDF (351k)
# 185 - Processed Catfish
PDF (49k)
# 186 - Channel Catfish: Dietary
Effects on Body Composition and Storage Quality
PDF (2594k)
# 187 - Channel Catfish Production: Impacts of Diet Composition and Feeding Practices
PDF (4259k)
# 188 - Refinement of Vitamin Supplementation in Diets for Channel Catfish
PDF (118k)
# 189 - Restricted Feeding Regimes Increase Production Efficiency in Channel Catfish
PDF (123k)
# 190 - Production of Hybrid Catfish
PDF (151k)
# 191 - Design and Construction of Degassing Units for Catfish Hatcheries
PDF (156k)
# 192
- Managing Off-Flavor Problems in Pond-Raised
Catfish
PDF
(92K)
# 1800 - Costs of Small-Scale Catfish Production
PDF
(292k)
# 1801 - Infestations
of the Trematode Bolbophorus sp. in Channel Catfish
PDF (84k)
# 1802 - Channel
Catfish Broodfish Management PDF (85k)
Largemouth Bass
# 200 - Largemouth Bass: Biology and Life History (Revised 1997)
PDF (79k)
# 201 - Largemouth Bass
(Revised 1997)
PDF (103k)
Trout
# 220 - Trout Production: Handling
Eggs and Fry (Revised 2000)
PDF (199k)
# 221 - Budgets for Trout
Production: Estimated Costs and Returns for Trout Farming in the South
PDF (84k)
# 222 - Trout Farming:
Carrying Capacity and Inventory Management (Revised 2000)
PDF (75k)
# 223 - Trout Production: Feeds and
Feeding Methods (Revised 1999)
PDF (53k)
# 224 - Rainbow Trout
PDF (112k)
Alligators
# 230 - Alligator Production: An
Introduction
PDF (263k)
# 231 - Alligator Production:
Breeding and Egg Incubation
PDF (7429k)
# 232 - Alligator Production:
Grow-out and Harvest
PDF (2732k)
Crawfish
# 240 - Crawfish
Production: Production Economics, Pond Construction and Water Supply
(Revised 1998)
PDF (138k)
# 241 - Crawfish
Production Systems (Revised 1998)
PDF (151k)
# 242 - Crawfish Production:
Harvesting, Marketing and Economic
PDF (2495k)
# 243 - Crawfish: A Healthy Choice!
PDF (531k)
# 244 - Australian Red Claw Crayfish
PDF (226k)
#
2400 - Crawfish Production:
Harvesting PDF (159k)
Penaeid Shrimp
# 260 - Introduction of Exotic
Shrimp: Quarantine and Disease Method
PDF (49k)
# 2600
-
Opportunities and Constraints in Marine Shrimp Farming
PDF (1244k)
Tilapia
# 280 - Pond Culture of Tilapia
PDF (50k)
# 281 - Cage Culture of Tilapia
PDF (74k)
# 282 - Tank Culture of Tilapia
PDF (49k)
# 283 - Tilapia: Life History and
Biology
PDF (130k)
Striped Bass
# 300 - Hybrid Striped Bass: Biology
and Life History
PDF (122k)
# 301 - Hybrid Striped Bass:
Hatchery Phase
PDF (74k)
# 302 - Hybrid Striped Bass: Pond
Production of Fingerling (Revised 2004)
PDF (28k)
# 303 - Hybrid Striped Bass: Pond
Production of Foodfish
PDF (28k)
# 304 - Improving Feeds for Hybrid
Striped Bass
PDF (103k)
#
3000 - Hybrid Striped Bass Production in Ponds: Enterprise Budget
PDF (67k)
Red Drum
# 320 - Red Drum: Biology and Life
History
PDF (28k)
# 321 - Red Drum: Site Selection and
Pond Construction
PDF (44k)
# 322 - Red Drum: Production of Food
Fish
PDF (51k)
# 323 - Red Drum: Brood Stock and
Hatchery Production
PDF (47k)
# 324 - Red Drum: Production of
Fingerlings and Stocker
PDF (836k)
# 340 - 4-H Aquatic Science Project:
Guide to Raising Catfish In a Cage
PDF (217k)
# 341 - 4-H Aquatic Science: Catfish
Cage Culture Record Keeping Project
PDF (2402k)
Small Scale Marketing
# 350 - Small-Scale Marketing of
Aquaculture Products
PDF (328k)
Aquatic Vegetation
# 360 - Aquatic Weed Management:
Control Method
PDF (338k)
# 361 - Aquatic Weed
Management: Herbicides (Revised 2001)
PDF (61k)
# 3600 -
Using Grass Carp in Aquaculture and Private Impoundments
PDF
(557k)
# 3601 - Aquatic Weed
Management: Herbicide Safety, Technology, and Applications Techniques
PDF (168k)
Aeration
# 370 - Pond Aeration
PDF (307k)
# 371 - Pond Aeration: Types
and Uses of Pond Aeration Equipment
PDF (284k)
# 372 - Selecting the Proper Pump
PDF (62k)
# 373 - Piping System
PDF (33k)
# 374 - Open Channel Flow in
Aquaculture
PDF (82k)
# 375 - Powering Aquaculture
Equipment
PDF (68k)
Software
# 381 - Developing Business
Proposals for Aquaculture Loans
PDF (96k)
Harvesting, Holding, and Hauling
# 390 - Transportation of Warmwater
Fish: Equipment and Guideline
PDF (3123k)
# 391 - Sorting and Grading Warmwater Fish
PDF (4619k)
# 392 - Transportation of Warmwater
Fish: Procedures and Loading Rate
PDF (2684k)
# 393 - Transportation of Warmwater
Fish: Loading Rates and Tips by Species
PDF (11000k)
# 394 - Harvesting Warmwater Fish
PDF (5166k)
# 395 - Inventory Assessment
Methods
for Aquaculture Ponds
PDF (119k)
Predators
# 400 - Avian Predators on Southern
Aquaculture
PDF (2190k)
# 401 - Avian Predators: Frightening
Techniques for Reducing Bird Damage at Aquaculture Facilities
PDF
(2605k)
# 402 - Control of Bird Predation at
Aquaculture Facilities: Strategies and Cost (Revised 1997)
PDF (106k)
Treatments
# 410 - Calculating Treatments for
Pond and Tank
PDF (285k)
Induced Spawning
# 421 - Introduction to
Hormone-Induced Spawning of Fish
PDF (45k)
# 422 - Capturing, Handling,
Transporting, Injecting and Holding Brood Fish for Induced Spawning
PDF (28k)
# 423 - Determining Sexual Maturity
of Broodstock for Induced Spawning of Fish
PDF (89k)
# 424 - Hormonal Control of
Reproduction in Fish for Induced Spawning
PDF (78k)
# 425 - Hormone Preparation, Dosage
Calculation, and Injection for Induced Spawning of Fish
PDF (65k)
# 426 - Techniques for Taking and
Fertilizing the Spawn of Fish
PDF (103k)
# 427 - Induction and Verification
of Triploidy in Fish
PDF (392k)
General
# 431 - Testing Flavor Quality of Preharvest Channel Catfish
PDF (334k)
# 4300 - Extensive
Culture of Crassostrea virginica in the Gulf of Mexico Region
PDF
(805k)
# 432 - The Cultivation of the
American Oyster (Revised 2001)
PDF (126k)
# 433 - Biology and Culture of the
Northern Quahog Clam
PDF (74k)
# 434 - Aquacultured Oyster Products
PDF (65k)
# 435 - Water Gardens
PDF (201k)
# 436 - Bullfrog Culture
PDF (116k)
# 437 - Production
of Paddlefish
PDF
(166k)
# 438 - Bighead
Carp
PDF
(815k)
# 439 - Pet
Turtle Production
PDF
(268k)
Beginning Aquaculture
# 441 - Aquaculture: Realities and
Potentials When Getting Started (Revised 1998)
PDF (657k)
# 442 - Small Scale, On-farm Fish
Processing
PDF (96k)
Recirculating Systems
# 451 - Recirculating Aquaculture
Tank Production Systems: An Overview of Critical Considerations
(Revised 1998)
PDF (143k)
# 452
- Recirculating Aquaculture Tank Production Systems: Management of
Recirculating Systems
(Revised 1999)
PDF (116k)
# 453 - Recirculating Aquaculture
Tank Production Systems: A Review of Component Options
(Revised 1999)
PDF (224k)
# 454 - Recirculating Aquaculture
Tank Production Systems: Integrating Fish and Plant Culture
PDF (7271k)
# 455 - Pond Recirculating
Production Systems
PDF (226k)
# 456 - The Economics of
Recirculating Tank Systems: A Spreadsheet for Individual Analysis
PDF (116k)
#
4500- Partitioned Aquaculture Systems PDF
(83k)
Water Quality
# 460 - Control of Clay Turbidity in
Ponds
PDF (88k)
# 461 - Water Quantity and Quality
Requirements for Channel Catfish Hatcheries
PDF (375k)
# 462 - Nitrite in Fish Ponds
(Revised 1997)
PDF (90k)
# 463 - Ammonia in Fish Ponds
(Revised 1997)
PDF (735k)
# 464 - Interactions of pH, Carbon
Dioxide, Alkalinity and Hardness in Fish Pond
PDF (73k)
# 465 - Survey of Aquaculture
Effluent Permitting and 1993 Standards in the South
PDF (105k)
# 466 - Algal Blooms in Commercial
Fish Production Ponds
PDF (84k)
# 467 - Cost of Alternative Effluent
Treatments for Catfish Production
PDF (31k)
# 468 - Carbon Dioxide in Fish Ponds
PDF (168k)
# 469 - Fertilization of Fish Fry
Ponds
PDF (222k)
# 470 - Characterization and
Management of Effluents from Aquaculture Ponds in the Southeastern United States
PDF (107k)
# 471 - Fertilization of Fish Ponds
PDF (78k)
#
4600 - Toxicities of Agricultural Pesticides to Selected Aquatic Organisms
PDF (433k)
#
4601 - Measuring Dissolved Oxygen Concentration in Aquaculture
PDF (607k)
#
4602 - Pond Mixing PDF (164k)
Dieseases
# 472 - Submitting a Sample for Fish
Kill Investigation
PDF (47k)
# 473 - Use of Medicated Feed in
Food Fish (Revised 1996)
PDF (66k)
# 474 - The Role of Stress in Fish
Disease
PDF (37k)
# 475 - Proliferative Gill Disease
(Hamburger Gill Disease)
PDF (140k)
# 476 - Ich (White Spot Disease)
PDF (256k)
# 477 - ESC - Enteric Septicemia of
Catfish
PDF (206k)
# 478 - Aeromonas Bacterial
Infections - Motile Aeromonad septicemia
PDF (200k)
# 479b - Columnaris Disease:
A Bacterial Infection Caused by Flavobacterium columnare
PDF (149k)
# 4700
- Saprolegniasis (Winter Fungus) and Branchiomycosis of Commericially
Cultured Channel Catfish
PDF (210k)
#
4701 - Protozoan Parasites PDF
(645k)
# 4702 -
Channel Catfish Virus Disease PDF (67k)
Fee Fishing
# 479a - Fee-Fishing: An
Introduction
PDF (150k)
# 480 - Fee-Fishing Ponds:
Management of Food Fish and Water Quality
PDF (2875k)
# 481 - Development and Management
of Fishing Leases
PDF (93k)
# 482 - Fee-Fishing: Location, Site
Development and Other Consideration
PDF (103k)
Freshwater Prawns
# 483 - Freshwater Prawns:
Biology and Life History
PDF (78k)
# 484 - Freshwater Prawns:
Pond Production and Grow-out
PDF (114k)
Quality Control
# 491 - Microbiological Rinse
Technique: Basis for a New Quality Control Program
PDF (111k)
# 4900 - Developing a HACCP Program
for the Catfish Processing Industry
PDF (5839k)
Preparation and Serving
# 501 - You Can Do Catfish
PDF (236k)
# 501S - El bagre es delicioso y
nutritivo
PDF (118k)
Final Project Reports
# 600 - Characterization and
Management of Effluents from Aquaculture Ponds in the Southeastern U.S.
PDF (318k)
# 601 - Analysis of Regional and
National Markets for Aquacultural Food Products in the Southern Region
PDF (524k)
#
6000 - Effect of Nutrition on Body
Composition and Subsequent Storage Quality of Farm-raised Channel Catfish
PDF (275k)
Larval Culture
# 700 - Zooplankton
Succession and Larval Fish Culture in Freshwater Ponds
PDF
(68k)
# 701 -
Culture
of Small Zooplankters for the Feeding of Larval Fish
PDF
(125k)
# 702 - Artemia
Production for Marine Larval Fish Culture
PDF
(122k)
Species Profile
# 721 - Species
Profile: Grouper Aquaculture
PDF
(226k)
# 722 - Species
Profile: Largemouth Bass
PDF
(88k)
# 723 - Species
Profile: Bigmouth Buffalo
PDF
(170k)
# 724 - Species
Profile: Sunfish
PDF
(55k)
# 725 - Species
Profile: Mutton Snapper
PDF
(620k)
# 726 - Species
Profile: Southern Flounder
PDF
(158k)
# 7200 -
Species
Profile: Production of Sturgeon
PDF (1054k)
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