WHAT'S NEW

• SRAC 20TH ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT -- Includes comprehensive reports on the following multi-year research and extension projects supported by SRAC during the past year. 
  • Publications, Videos and Computer Software
  • Innovative Technologies and Methodologies for Commercial-Scale Pond Aquaculture
  • Improving Reproductive Efficiency to Produce Channel × Blue Hybrid Catfish Fry
  • Feed Formulation and Feeding Strategies for Bain and Ornamental Fish
    
    Also check out the recent additions to the list of Research Publications for each of these projects.
    
    

• For a concise report of results and accomplishments of the projects listed above, see the December, 2007 20th ANNUAL SUMMARY OF PROJECTS recently distributed by SRAC.
  
  

• RESULTS AT A GLANCE...  Outstanding facts and impacts attributable to research work conducted on some of our SRAC projects.
  
  

• Two excellent new publications are available from the North Central Regional Aquaculture Center: 
  • Yellow Perch Culture Guide is an 84-page publication which includes chapters covering, in part, yellow perch biology, brood fish management, fingerling culture, diseases, nutrition, and marketing.  Available as a 3-hole punch document ($26) or as a CD ($15).  Series #103.
  • Hybrid Striped Bass Culture Guide includes information on a range of topics including biology, brood fish management, diseases and transport, nutrition, and marketing.  Available as a CD ($15).   Series #104.

  Order from: 
  North Central Regional Aquaculture Center (NCRAC)
  Iowa State University
  Natural Resource Ecology & Management
  339 Science II
  Ames, IA 50011-3221
  515-294-5280 (telephone)
  515-294-2995 (fax)
  Email: ncrac@iastate.edu
  http://www.ncrac.org/News/
  
  

• ERS Aquaculture Outlook
  The USDA Economic Research Service publishes its Aquaculture Outlook twice yearly.  It examines the U.S. aquaculture industry, including production, inventory, sales, prices, inputs and trade of catfish, trout, tilapia, salmon, mollusks, crawfish, shrimp, ornamental fish and new species.  The latest Aquaculture Outlook can be accessed at the following URL:
  http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/documentInfo.do?documentID=1375