Salmon Farming

by Lekang, Odd-ivar

• ISBN13: 9781789181814
• ISBN10: 178918181X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-10-31
• Publisher: 5m Publishing

Summary

Salmon Farming gives 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.

Author Biography

Odd-Ivar Lekang is Professor of Aquaculture Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Odd-Ivar teaches and researches in aquaculture production system and is author of the book Aquaculture Engineering, the standard work on the subject, now in its second edition.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction – Overview of the salmon industry and production systems used for salmon. 2. Life Cycle – General requirements, description, comparison of the life cycle and ways to manipulate the life cycle 3. International Laws and Regulations – Why there are Laws and Regulations in fish farming, Increasing number of law and regulation, Important laws and The aquaculture act. 4. Brood stock farms – Brief description of the production systems, site selection, stripping procedure, possibilities for manipulation of the spawning time, production and management, eyed egg production, sending out eyed eggs. 5. Fry and Smolt Production – Brief description of production systems, production models, production planning, site selection, production and management, preparation for intake of eyed eggs, from eyed eggs to hatching, from hatching to finished start feeding, from fry to smolt, smolt and sending out of smolt, maintenance and maintenance routines, production economics 6. On-Growing - Brief description of production systems, production models, production planning, site selection and classification, MOM systems, production and management, set out, daily work, necessary work when needed or in given / fixed intervals, preparation for slaughtering, maintenance and maintenance routines, production economy. 7. New Trends – Brood stock and smolt farms, on-growing farms and full production farms.