Aquaculture
Subject Guide
This
subject guide covers aquaculture resources available at the Johnston
Memorial Library, including full-text journals, magazine, and newspaper
articles, aquaculture websites, and printed materials in the
Reference Collection. This is not a comprehensive subject guide,
but rather a selective list of materials that are most useful for
locating information in this field. Library location and call
number are provided for print publications.
Full-text
Databases
- ABI/INFORM.
Indexes business magazines and journals covering the subjects of business
and management, finance, trade, products, trends, companies and more.
Excellent database to research the business and management aspects
of aquaculture.
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Highwire Press.
Full-text journal articles in in the areas of biological science,
medical science, physical science, and social science. Indexes a number
of agriculture and aquaculture journals.
- Infotrac
One. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on
a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics,
education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities,
law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports,
technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text
articles many with images. Updated daily. A good source to research
the business aspects of aquaculture.
- Nutritiongate.com.
Includes abstracts of information for nutrition and food research
scientists, dieticians, food industry professionals, and animal production
specialists.
- Statistical
Universe. Full-text database
to U.S. Statistical data and some international statistics. Features
include searching the Power Tables for finding fast answers, searching
summaries of statistical publications for comprehensive overview of
documents or selecting links to other websites with useful information
about statistics.
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Journal
Indexes and Abstracts
- Agricola.
Literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings,
theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software,
and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture.
- Biological
Abstracts. An index with
abstracts to periodicals in biology and the life sciences worldwide.
- Water
Resources Abstracts. Summaries of technical and scientific
literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation,
control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
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- Aquaculture
Outlook (LDP-AQS). Aquaculture Outlook is
a product of the Economic Research Service. This source examines
the U.S. aquaculture industry: production, inventory, sales, prices,
inputs, and trade of catfish, trout, tilapia, salmon, mollusks, crawfish,
shrimp, ornamental fish and new species.
- Fish
Farming and Aquaculture. This site is sponsored
by the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. Includes information
on how to select the right fish to raise, pesticides, planning, pond
construction, and information for prospective fish growers.
- Guide
to Federal Aquaculture Programs and Services.This
guide is a directional resource to aquaculture programs and services
within the federal government. Program and service descriptions
and World Wide Web links to the homepages of many Federal government
agencies or organizations with respect to its aquaculture activities.
- United
States Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture. The Joint
Subcommittee on Aquaculture (JSA) serves as a Federal interagency
coordinating group to increase the overall effectiveness and productivity
of Federal aquaculture research, transfer, and assistance programs.
Excellent source for federal policy, programs, services and statistics
on aquaculture. Links to other aquaculture sites are included.
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Internet
Websites
- Aquaculture
Dictionary-Aquatext. Aquatext.
com is a dictionary that is written by aquaculturists for aquaculturists.
Over 2,500 aquaculture definitions including 280 tables, 250 pictures
and 120 calculations
- Aquaculture
Health Page. Compilation of aquaculture health information
available on the Internet. Includes information on fish, mollusk,
and crustacean diseases, drugs, educational programs, books and periodicals,
organizations, and diagnostic services.
- Aquaculture
Magazine Online.
Information on Fish Farming, Processing, Breeding and raising aquatic
species including tilapia, trout, salmon, shrimp, catfish, crayfish,
oysters, redclaw, hybrid striped bass and shellfish. Topics
include pond management, diseases, market trends, farm stocking, recirculating
systems, statistics, selling, nutrition, feed and more. U.S.
and international aquaculture industry focus.
- AquaNIC.
The Agriculture Network Information Center (AgnIC) is a voluntary
alliance of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), land-grant universities
and other agricultural organizations, in cooperation with citizen
groups and government agencies. AgNIC focuses on providing agricultural
information in electronic format over the World Wide Web via the Internet).
AquaNIC houses or provides links to thousands of state, national,
and international aquaculture publications, newsletters, visual media,
calendars, job services, directories and specialty sections for species
and production systems
- Aquatic
Network.
Aquatic Network describes itself as an information
service for the aquatic world. Subject areas covered include
aquaculture, conservation, fisheries, and limnology. Searches
can be done at this site.
- Definition
of Fisheries Technical Terms. The
Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) offers this helpful list
of definitions of important fisheries terms. Technical terms
from "Absolute Recruitment" through 'Yield per Recruit" are described
clearly in straight forward language. Whether for the fishers
students or incoming fisheries scientists, this resource will lend
a helping hand where other dictionaries just don't salt the fish.
- Fishing
for Information. This site is
a hypertext guide to Internet resources in aquatic science.
The main emphasis is on aquaculture and fisheries, including: fish
farming, aquatic environments, and water resources.
- World
Aquaculture. This site is designed to present a
vast, dynamic database of information pertaining to aquaculture.
The creators hope that this database will help form the foundations
of an effective aquaculture management system. For an efficient
management system to exist, an adequate working knowledge of aquaculture
must be developed and a means of communication so that all aquaculture
farms can benefit from the information and avoid mistakes made by
other farms. This site is an attempt to establish such a database.
- World
Aquaculture Society. WAS is an international non-profit
society with over 4,000 members in 94 countries. Founded in
1970, the primary focus of WAS is to improve communication and information
exchange within the diverse global aquaculture community. The
WAS is committed to excellence in science, technology, education,
and information exchange and to the progressive and sustainable development
of aquaculture throughout the world.
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©VSU
Library and Media Services, 11-09-04.
Gloria Beck,
Government Documents Librarian.
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