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Direct Marketing Guidebook for Small- to Medium-Scale Aquaculture Businesses Thumbnail

Year: 2025

Small- to medium-scale aquaculture businesses in the USDA North Central region face marketing challenges. In this publication, Purdue and Illinois researchers use a step-by-step approach to advise farmers how direct marketing can shorten the supply chain and help them find new customers willing to pay premium prices.

This publication is available for download from the Purdue University Extension Education Store at: https://edustore.purdue.edu/fnr-642-w.html


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File Type: pdf
File Size: 19.45 MB
Year: 2025

Aquaponics: Farming Fish, Growing Greens teaches STEM through aquaponics, a water-based agricultural system that combines aquaculture and hydroponics. This 9-12 grade curriculum was designed to be used along with an onsite aquaponics system. Curriculum topics include an Introduction to aquaculture, fundamental parts of an aquaponics system, the nitrogen cycle, water quality, population dynamics, our modern food system and more. Lessons were developed to build on each other and be delivered in sequence but can also be used individually.

If you would like to access to all the Aquaponics: Farming Fish, Growing Greens curriculum resources such as slide decks, submit your requests to iisg@purdue.edu.

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Know Your H2O Quick Reference Guide for Testing Water Quality Thumbnail
File Type: pdf
File Size: 3.50 MB
Year: 2024

This quick reference guide is a supplement resource for the Know Your H2O water quality testing kit. The guide takes you step-by-step through basic procedures for measuring dissolved oxygen and temperature using the YSI Pro 20i dissolved oxygen meter and pH using an EcoSense pH pen. It also provides testing procedures for La Motte chemical tests to measure alkalinity, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, iron, and phosphate levels in water.

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Seafood Basics: A Toolkit for Understanding Seafood, Nutrition, Safety and Preparation, and Sourcing Thumbnail
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File Size: 21.49 MB
Year: 2023

This toolkit is a curated collection of information and resources focused on seafood for educators interested in supplementing existing programs. Topics covered in this publication include the health benefits of eating seafood, recommendations for including seafood as part of healthy eating patterns, sourcing, and seafood safety. In addition to information about nutrition and safety, there are sections on cooking methods, recipes, and social media that can be used for planning your next cooking demonstration and educating and inspiring clients.

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Hybrid Striped Bass: Farmed Fish Fact Sheet Thumbnail
File Type: pdf
File Size: 3.28 MB
Year: 2023

This is the eleventh in a series of consumer guides that describe fish and shellfish farmed in the Midwest region of the United States. (See Freshwater Prawn Farmed Fish Fact SheetLargemouth Bass Farmed Fish Fact Sheet, Atlantic Salmon Farmed Fish Fact Sheet, Walleye Farmed Fish Fact SheetYellow Perch Farmed Fish Fact Sheet, Tilapia Farmed Fish Fact Sheet, Rainbow Trout Farmed Fished Fact Sheet, Pacific White Shrimp Farmed Fish Fact SheetAmerican Paddlefish Farmed Fish Fact Sheet, and Channel Catfish Farmed Fish Fact Sheet). The fact sheet also includes culinary characteristics, cooking tips and a recipe for Herb & Lemon Roasted Bass.

References:

  1. Hodson, R. 1989. Hybrid Striped Bass Biology and Life History. Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) Publication No. 300.
  2. FAO 2023. MORONIDAE. Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme. Text by Harrell, R. M.. Fisheries and Aquaculture Division [online]. Rome. Updated 2016-02-05 [Retrieved Thursday, August 10th 2023]. Available online: https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/culturedspecies/morone_hybrid/en.
  3. Hybrid Striped Bass Production Markets and Marketing report. Available online at: https://fisheries.tamu.edu/files/2013/09/Hybrid-Striped-Bass-Production-Markets-and-Marketing.pdf.
  4. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
    2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 9th Edition. December 2020. Available online at: https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2020-12/Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans_2020-2025.pdf.
  5. Judy Sheeshka & Elaine Murkin (2002) Nutritional Aspects of Fish Compared with Other Protein Sources, Comments on Toxicology, 8:4-6, 375-397, DOI: 10.1080/08865140215065. Available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08865140215065.
  6. Wendy McKelvey, Moses Chang, John Arnason, Nancy Jeffery, Judith Kricheff, Daniel Kass, Mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls in Asian market fish: A response to results from mercury biomonitoring in New York City, Environmental Research, Volume 110, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 650-657. Available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935110001155.
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