Courtesy of NAA:
The Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Aquaculture Fisheries Center invite you to an Aquaculture Field Day on Thursday, October 6, 2022, at 2955 Highway 130 East, Stuttgart Arkansas 72160.
Registration opens at 8:30 am, tours begin at 9:00 am and end at 11:30 am, followed by lunch at noon. There will be walking and tractor tours. Research posters will be on display at the luncheon venue.
The Aquaculture Field Day Program will include information on these topics:
- Finishing diets for hybrid striped bass
- Understanding and mitigating iron toxicity in aquaculture
- Differential susceptibility in bass to common aquaculture diseases
- Small scale aquaponics
- Making triploid sunshine bass and preventing sticky sunshine bass embryos
- Radio telemetry reveals otherwise unobservable fish behavior
- Using microdiets in various feeding strategies for rearing larval fish
- Split-pond verification results for catfish
- Selection of white bass for sustainable diets
- Improving soybean meal acceptance in largemouth bass
- Hybrid striped bass feed utilization using multiple feed enzymes
- Biosecure farming: Disease prevention
- Conventional vs. split-ponds for hybrid striped bass grow-out
- Development of non-antibiotic methods to prevent bacteria-induced losses
- Growing hybrid striped bass in the bioflox system
- Submerged aquatic vegetation re-establishment in Lake DeGray
- Implications of inflation on the aquaculture industry
For additional information, please contact Bart Green, Acting Research Leader/Center Director, Harry K. Dupree Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center via Voice (870) 672-8275, Cell (870) 308-3457 or Email Bart.Green@usda.gov.