WHAT'S NEW

• SRAC 21st 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
  • Feed Formulation and Feeding Strategies for Bain and Ornamental Fish
  • Development and Evaluation of Pond Inventory Methods
  • Economic Forecasting and Policy Analysis Models for Catfish and Trout
    
    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, 2008 21st ANNUAL SUMMARY OF PROJECTS.
  
  

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

• 2008 Catfish Database by Dr. Terry Hanson and David Sites is a collection of data concerning the U.S. farm-raised catfish industry.   It can be found on-line at:
  http://www.aces.edu/dept/fisheries/aquaculture/catfish-database/catfish-2008.php
  or
  http://www.agecon.msstate.edu/Research/catfish2008db.php
  
  
  

• 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

• USDA ERS data on catfish and trout and U.S. imports and exports of fish and shellfish now available. For updated information (July 2009) on U.S. aquaculture statistics including domestically grown catfish and trout and U.S. imports and exports of fish and shellfish that may be products of aquaculture, such as salmon, shrimp, and oysters go to http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Aquaculture/

  The 2005 Census of Aquaculture is at http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2002/Aquaculture/index.asp