Overview

Worldwide, aquaculture has increased at an average of 9. 2 per cent per year for the past 30 years, compared with only a 2. 8 per cent per year increase for terrestrial animal farming. Production from fish (and shellfish and algae) farms now comprises 30 per cent of the total of the World's food from our waters and this growth is predicted to continue until at least 2025. Aquaculture engineering is a key area for all aquatic production facilities and this comprehensive book covers all the main aspects of aquaculture engineering with chapters covering water transport and treatment, production units (e. g. tanks and cages), feeding systems, fish transport and grading, egg handling, instrumentation and monitoring, slaughtering, cleaning and waste handling, construction and design, planning and quality control.

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9781405126106

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Its appearance would seem to be timely as there has been a good deal of new technology developed in recent years. Aquaculture Engineering is loaded with drawings and photographs, which are very useful to those who are unfamiliar with what some things being described actually look like. World Aquaculture, Vol38, No3, 2007 'Fish farmers and other personnel involved in the aquaculture industry, suppliers to the fish farming business and designers and manufacturers will find this book an invaluable resource. The book will be an important addition to the shelves of all libraries in universities and research institutions where aquaculture, agriculture and environmental sciences are studied and taught.' Aquaculture Europe 'A useful book that, hopefully, will inspire successors that focus more on warm water aquaculture and on large-scale mariculture such as tuna farming.' Cision 'the book...provides a useful history and description of the current state-of-the-art of aquaculture engineering.' Work Boat World, October 2007 the inclusion of worked examples to illustrate the practical application of technical equations is a usefulo deature... this book is richly illutsrated, with many black and white photographs, line diagrams and graphs' Aquaculture Int (2007) 15: 503-504

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Odd-Ivar Lekang Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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