In this regular contribution to Feed Tech, Dr Joachim Hertrampf comments on issues that affect shrimp farming and feeding. Dr Hertrampf regularly writes 'hands-on' articles as a consultant for the monthly newsletter Shrimp Matters, of The Waterbas...

01 aug 2006

With increasing use of extruded products in aquaculture, cooling of the pellets is not enough to bring the moisture content down to the desired level. Dryers are becoming more and more popular. Paul Douglas from Aeroglide emphasises that dryer design...

01 may 2006

In this regular contribution to Feed Tech, Dr Joachim Hertrampf comments on issues that affect shrimp farming and feeding. Dr Hertrampf writes on this issue regularly as a consultant for the monthly newsletter 'Shrimp Matters', of The Waterbase in Ch...

01 apr 2006

Plant-based ingredients are increasingly used in fish diets due to increase economic/market pressures on feed compounders to produce lower cost, sustainable alternatives. Because plant ingredients pose a high risk of mycotoxin contamination, moving ...

01 dec 2005

Shrimp feed accounts for the highest portion of the production cost of farming, and lack of understanding of shrimps' eating behaviour makes feeding even more expensive. The present practice of feeding management in shrimp culture needs to be re-exam...

01 jun 2005

Nutrition is one of the key drivers in animal production, especially intensive animal production. In aquaculture, the high cost of diets makes it even more so. Using feed that is targeted to give maximum efficiency from the species grown can mean the...

01 oct 2004

In tropical conditions it is very difficult to keep feed pest-free. One solution is to fumigate feed with aluminium phosphide. Until now I was not clear whether fumigation residues in shrimp feed were detrimental to the shrimp or not.

01 aug 2004

Spread out between the Red Sea and the desert is an exemplary shrimp breeding facility – and right in the middle of it a Buhler feed manufacturing plant. Using a new production process, it produces a specialty feed for shrimp enabling the animals to...

01 sep 2003

Today's expectations are that the fish feed supplier can produce a product that hits precise quality targets in terms of size, durability, density and nutritional composition at a highly competitive price. The following article describes a few of the...

01 mar 2003

Continuing community pressure forced south Australian tuna farmers to find an alternative to frozen raw fish as fish feed. Skretting Australia developed a diet that has led to the world's first successful commercial farming of tuna on pelleted feed....

01 jun 2002