This is my Aquaculture Blog - I am currently pursuing an Associate Degree in Aquaculture, with hopes of eventually obtaining a Ph.D. in Marine Biology. With a year in multimedia (Westwood College, Denver), of course my focus is on photography, including microscopy which has became a personal favorite hobby.
Thousand Dollar Question
Will somebody please point out where either term, "Create" or "Design," even appear in the text of Genesis, Epoch Three, related to the introduction of algae around hydrothermal vents on early earth, including forms of soft bodied, non-photosynthetic plant-life?
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth (tender) grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Still waiting....
Contact
See bottom sidebar for contact. Photographs marked as property of this website are public access and may be used freely for educational purposes as long as this site is credited as the source.
Comments of constructive criticism are welcomed.
Main Links
1. Aquaculture Blog
2. Aquaculture Home
3. Aquaculture Myths
and Pond Construction
4. NC Aquaculture Development Conference 2007
5. Fish Products: World's Leading Source of Protein
6. Aquatic Food Chain
7. Protozoa, their role and impact on Aquaculture, on parasitic-diseases of fish, crustaceans and mollusks.
8. Protozoan identification chart.
Unit 1: Warmwater Fish
* Culture techniques used in NC and elsewhere for the production of channel catfish, largemouth bass and other warm finfish species.
1. Channel Catfish I
2. Channel Catfish II
3. Channel Catfish, Notes
4. Largemouth Bass
5. Largemouth B., Notes
6. Tilapia Culture
7. Minnows and other Bait
* Modified for this blog from class notes composed by Dr. Doug Holland. For a list of available nationwide aquaculture schools and courses please visit Aquaculture Schools, pdf format.
Stages of Fish Development
Illustrations from Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Johnson and Allen
Unit 2: Other Finfish
1. Hybrid Striped Bass Culture
2. Rainbow Trout Culture
3. Rainbow Trout Cltr. II
4. Yellow Perch Culture
* Modified for this blog from class notes composed by Dr. Doug Holland. For a list of available aquaculture schools, nationwide visit Aquaculture Schools, pdf format.
Zooplankton and Phytoplankton
• SEPMN, NOAA's network of volunteers, to monitor for toxic phytoplankton blooms.
A note on proper identification of algae and species.
Plankton comprised of Zooplankton (animal) and Phytoplankton (plant)
Zooplankton (animal)
• Centropyxis
• Cypridopsis
• Alonella, Waterflea
Phytoplankton (plant)
• Diatoms
• Volvox
• Euglena
• Merismopedia
• Closterium
• Desmids: Pleurotaenium
• Protococcus
Algae Photos/Videos
Euglena
Cypridopsis
Volvox
The microscope I use to capture digital images came from
Microscope World.
Some of my
videos on youtube.com
Microscopy Videos
Salt Water Sample - 2/22/2007
Freshwater Sample - 2/23/2007
John Baka, instructor @ BCC Aquaculture, Photos and Videos - 2/24/2007
Volvox, Videos and Photos of Volvox, 2/28/2007
Japan's Dolphin Slaughter.
On evolution and intelligence in cetacea.
Japan continues to allow the butcher of these magnificent and intelligent creatures, despite endangered species treaties ratified in over 150 governments (UN). Japan's indifference demonstrates its lack of respect for ocean waters and creatures living in them.
BTW, that does not qualify under commercial "fishing" because dolphin aren't fish! They're highly evolved, intelligent mammals, like us.
Other useful information
1. Basic Fish Anatomy
- a. Fish Brain
- b. Scent and Breathing
2. Constructing a CO2 Reactor
3. pH Levels in Water
4. Lowering pH
5. Bio vs Mechanical Filter
6. Zoological Ranks and Suffix, Kingdom-Species
7. Dissolved Oxygen
Fundamentals of Aquaculture
James W. Avault, Jr., Ph.D.
Avault, 1996
Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States
Douglas G. Smith
Wiley, 2001
Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates
Thorp, Covich
Academic Press, 2001
Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification
Wehr, Sheath
Academic Press, 2003
Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
Johnson and Allen
John Hopkins, 2005
Related Links
1. AquaNic
2. Identifying Green Algae
Aquaculture Magazines
1. Aquaculture Mag
2. Hatchery International
Brunswick Community College
1. Aquaculture Center
2. BCC Lab and Hatchery
3. BCC Homepage
Aquaculture Technology Program
Carteret Community College
Morehead City, NC 28557
CCC Aquaculture Program
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NC Freshwater Fish
Brook Trout, Salvelinus fontinalis
Rainbow Trout, Salmo gairdneri
(=Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Largemouth Bass, Micropterus salmoides
Bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus
Red-ear sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus
Common carp, Cyprinus carpio
Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus
Blue Tilapia, Oreochromis aurea
Black Tilapia, Oreochromis mossambica
Hybrid Striped Bass
Morone saxatilis X Morone chrysops based on Species.
Bait Species
Golden Shiner Notemigonus crysoleucas
Fathead Minnow Pimephales promelas
White Sucker Catostomus commersoni
Goldfish Carassius autatus
About Myself
1. My blog on Mollusks and other ocean species, of North Carolina.
2. My home for North Carolina Seashells.
3. My blog for Nature Photography.
4. What inspired me to get into Marine Biology
Sharon Mooney
Amateur photographer and graphic design.
Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Meticulously detailing Communism's crimes from Russia in 1917 to Afghanistan in 1989, the soul-destroying connections between Marxist idealism and the violence committed in the name of Communism, a damning reckoning with a cumulative toll of victims under communist rule, estimated by the authors at between 85 and 100 million victims, dwarfs even the crimes of the Nazis. Concluding, they wonder forcefully why such "class genocide" is excused more easily than the Nazis' "race genocide."
Labels: commercial fish industry, fish anatomy
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