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The World Aquaculture Society Meeting
in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

February 29 through March 3, 2012

Information: John Cooksey, World Aquaculture Conference Management, P.O. Box 2302, Valley Center, California 92082 USA (phone 1-760-751-5005, fax 1-760-751-5003, email worldaqua@aol.com).

Shrimp Culture Session

March 1, 2012, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Session Chairmen, Brian Nerrie and Louis D’Abramo

• Water Temperature in Inland, Low-Salinity Shrimp Ponds in Alabama (Naparat Prapaiwong, prapana@tigermail.auburn.edu)

• Description of a Procedure to Control the Taura Syndrome Virus in the Intensive Culture of Pacific White Shrimp (Carlos Ching, cchingm@alicorp.com.pe)

• High Production of Shrimp in Ponds Treated with Commercial Probiotics (Vadivel Elumalai, v_7hills@yahoo.co.in)

• Substitution of Fish Meal with Glandless Cottonseed Meals in Research Diets Fed to the Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Maintained in Zero-Water-Exchange Tanks (Cristina Richardson, cristina422@hotmail.com)

• Substitution of Fish Meal with Glandless Cottonseed Meals in Commercial Diets Fed to the Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Maintained in Zero Water-Exchange Tanks (Anthony Siccardi, asiccardi@ag.tamu.edu)

• Characterization of Chinese Shrimp Farming Systems Towards Typology and Economic Sustainability (Cao Ling caoling@umich.edu)

• Response of Juvenile Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei to Two Sources of Copper Supplements (Yan-Gen Zhou, yzz0027@tigermail.auburn.edu)

• Use of New Soybean Varieties in Practical Diets for the Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Yan-Gen Zhou, yzz0027@tigermail.auburn.edu)

• Advances in the intensive Culture of White Shimp Litopenaeus vannamei in Baja California Sur (B.C.S.), Mexico (Humberto Villarreal, humberto04@cibnor.mx)

• Accuracy of the Larcos Counter™ Compared to Traditional Methods for Assessing Survival in Shallow Water Super-intensive Stacked Raceways for Indoor Production of Litopenaeus vannamei (Brinson Lingenfelter, brinson.lingenfelter@tamucc.edu)

• Realizing Commercial Potential of Shallow Water Super-intensive Stacked Raceways for Indoor Production of Litopenaeus vannamei (Brinson Lingenfelter, brinson.lingenfelter@tamucc.edu)

• Dietary Protein Requirements for Production of Juvenile Litopenaeus vannamei from 10 Day-Old Post Larvae in Zero Water (Biofloc) Versus Water Exchange (No Biofloc) Systems (Joshua Moeckel, joshua.moeckel@tamucc.edu)

• Growth and Survival of Litopenaeus vannamei in Indoor Shallow Water Tanks System (Susmita Patnaik, Spatnaik3@Yahoo.com)

• Preliminary Observations on the Management Strategies for Optimization of Nitrogen Control in Zero to Limited Water Exchange Shallow Nursery Systems (Jack Crockett, smpjkc@yahoo.com)

• Management Optimization for the Production of Juvenile Litopenaeus vannamei in a Shallow Water System Using Zero Water Exchange (Joshua Moeckel, joshua.moeckel@tamucc.edu)

• Stearine as Main Lipid Source to Replace Fish Oil in Diet of Pacific White Shrimp (Yong JuZhi, zyju@oceanicinstitute.org)

•  Comparison of Two Feeding Rates of Range Cubes on the Production of Freshwater Prawns Grown in Earthen Ponds and Corresponding Levels of Nitrogen and Phosphorus (Louis D’Abramo, ldabramo@cfr.msstate.edu)

• Using Super-intensive Stacked Raceways for Nursery Production of Juvenile Litopenaeus vannamei for Pond Production Systems (Addison Lawrence, smpall@yahoo.com)

• Development of Post-Harvest Processing Protocols and Markets for Freshwater Prawns Macrobrachium Rosenbergii (David Kuhn, davekuhn@vt.edu)

• Carbon Footprint of Local Freshwater Shrimp Production in Virginia (Brian Nerrie, bnerrie@vsu.edu)

• Effect of Methionine Source and Dietary Inclusion Level on Growth and Survival of Juvenile Litopenaeus vannamei (Joe Fox, joe.fox@tamucc.edu)

• Interactive Effects of Feed Processing Methods and Particle Sizes of Ingredients on Quality of Shrimp Feed (Dong-Fang Deng, dfdeng@oceanicinstitute.org)

Information: Brian Nerrie, Virginia State University, Cooperative Extension, Box 9081, Petersburg, Virginia 23806, USA (phone 1-804-524-5903, email aquaculturebnerrie@vsu.edu)

Information: Louis D’Abramo, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Vice, President for Academic Affairs, Mississippi State University, P.O. Box G, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA (phone 1-662-325-7400, email ldabramo@grad.msstate.edu).

Aquaculture Engineering Society

Biofloc Culture Systems

March 1, 2012, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Chairman, Yoram, Avnimelech

• Review of Biofloc Technology Options for Shrimp Culture: Benefits, Burdens, and Nutritional (David Kuhn)

• Recent Developments in Biofloc Technology in Shrimp Culture and Its Economics (Nyan Taw)

• Performance of Litopenaeus vannamei in Super‐Intensive Limited‐Discharge Raceways with Foam Frationation and Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring Systems as Management Tools (Tzachi Samocha)

• Comparing Chemoautotrophic‐Based Systems and the Use of Three Carbohydrates to Promote Heterotrophic‐Based Biofloc Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Culture Systems (Andrew Ray)

• Preliminary Observations on Management Strategies to Control Biofloc Production in Zero to Limited Water Exchange Shallow Water Indoor Nursery Systems (Jack Crockett)

• Performance of the Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei in Biofloc‐Dominated Zero-Exchange Raceways Using a Non‐Venturi Air Injection System for Aeration, Mixing and Foam Fractionation (Timothy Morris)

• Impact of Reused Water from Super-intensive, Minimal‐Exchange, Biofloc Systems on the Production of Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (John Leffler)

• Using Natural Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes to Determine Biofloc Harvesting by Fish and Shrimp in Ponds (Yoram Avnimelech)

• Production and Economic Comparison of Litopenaeus vannamei Raised in Biofloc under a Full-Light Greenhouse Environment Versus Indoor, Low‐Light Conditions in an Insulated Building (Jeffrey Brunson)

• Economic Analysis of Two Zero‐Exchange Biofloc Dominated Super‐Intensive Production Systems for the Pacific White Shrimp (Terry Hanson)

Information: Yoram Avnimelech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000 Israel (email agyoram@tx.technion.ac.il)

Information: Terry Rakestraw, Assistant to the AES Secretary/Treasurer, 8969 Mountain View Drive, Copper Hill, Virginia 24079, USA (phone 1-540-231-6806, fax 1-540-231-9293, email aquaengsociety@yahoo.com, webpage http://www.aesweb.org).

The New Stuff Starts Below

Invertebrate Culture

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:00 a.M. to 12:30 P.M.

Chairwomen, Victoria (Katie) Gibbs

• Demonstration of Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus Culture in Inland Low Salinity Waters of West Alabama (Gregory Whitis, Luke Roy and William Walton)

SEAFOOD SAFETY, TRADE AND AQUACULTURE

Wednesday, February 29 11:00 - 12:30

Chairman Brett Koonse

• Equivalency: the Future of International Aquaculture Shrimp Farm Standards (Gregg Small)

• How Aquaculture, Food Security, Trade, and Food Safety Are Intimately Connected (Brett Koonse)

• Farm Certification in Thailand (Prompoj Waraporn)

Feeds and Nutrition

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 11:00 a.M. to 5:30 P.M.

Chairmen, D. Allen Davis and Luke a. Roy

• Determination of Dietary Nucleotide Requirement for Maximal Growth of Black Tiger Prawn P. monodon Using Semi-Purified Ingredients (Hoang Do Huu, Simon Tabrett, David M. Smith, Klaus Hoffmann, Peter Köppel, John S. Lucas and Andrew C. Barnes)

Integrating Molecular and Cellular Approaches
for Aquaculture Species Improvement

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Chairmen Ben Beck and Adam Fuller

• Delivery of VP19 Double-Stranded RNA into the Gut of Litopeneus vannamei Shows Protection Against White Spot Disease (Duan Loy, J. Dustin Loy, Mark Mogler, Lyric Bartholomay and D. L Hank Harris Direct)

Tips for the Young Aquaculture Professional Student Session

 Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m

Chairman, Matt DiMaggio

• 30 Years of Aquaculture Consulting (Anthonie M. Schuur)

Reducing the Risk of Disease

Thursday, March 1 8:30 - 5:00

Chairman, David Scarfe; Moderators, Nick Saint-Erne, Dušan Palić and Chris Walster

• An Investigation on the Efficiency of Three Innovative Culture Systems Against WSSV Infection in Experimentally Infected Penaeus monodon (Eleonor Tendencia, Roel Bosma and Johan Verreth)

Marine Finfish Broodstock and Larviculture

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:30 a.m. to  2:30 p.m.

Chairmen, Mike Schwarz, Nick King andAdam Luckenbach

• The Low Costs Mass Production of Live Rotifer Biomass in a Recycled Aquaculture System (Dallas Weaver and Mike Gafford)

Aquaculture 101

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 2:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m.

Chairman, Kathleen Hartman

• Algal Culture for Aquaculture and Bioenergy Co-Production (David Brune)

Management of Effluent from Flow-Through Aquaculture Systems

Thursday, March 1, 2012,  2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m

Chairmen, Gregory Boardman, Alexander Brinker

• Performance of a Sub-Surface Flow Constructed Wetland Planted with the Halophyte Salicornia Bigelovii in the Treatment of Shrimp Mariculture Effluent (Brandon Klim, Tzachi Samocha, Venkatesh Uddameri and Kim Jones)

• Marine Aquaculture Waste Management Demonstration System Using Geotextile Bags (James M. Ebeling, Paul G. Hightower, Erik Kopache, Douglas G. Drennan II and Reginald B. Blaylock)

• Application of 100nm Nano-Bubbles to Water Treatment for Aquaculture, CAFOS Animal Drinking Water, Farm Effluent, Industrial Effluent and Recreational Waters (Roland Johnson and Mitsaki Sugie)

Distiller’s Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) in Aquaculture

Friday, March 2, 2012 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Chairman, Chhorn Lim

• Partial Replacement of Soybean Meal with Dried Distiller’s Grains with Solubles in Practical Diets for Pacific Whiteleg Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Vaun Cummins, Alejandro Velasquez, Kenneth Thompson and Carl Webster)

Aquaculture in the Trenches: Practical Advice Learned the Hard Way

Friday, March 2, 2012, 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Chairmen, Bob Robinson

• Engineering for Aquaculture Solutions, Despair, and a Good Sense of Humor (Anthonie Schuur)

Alternative Feed Ingredients

Friday, March 2, 2012, 8:30 pa.m. to 12:30 p.m

Chairman, Gary Burr

• Evaluation of Grain Distillers Dried Yeast as an Alternative Protein Source in Production Diets for the Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Julio M. Achupallas, D. Allen Davis, Yan-Gen Zhou and Melanie Rhodes)

• Application of Macro-Algae Ingredients as Additives for Shrimp Feed (Colin Mair and Stefan Kraan)

International Marine Shrimp Environmental Genomics Initiative (IMSEGI)

Monitoring Ecosystem, Animal and Public Health

Friday, March 2, 2012,  8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Chairwoman, Acacia Alcivar-Warren

• One Health/UNA SALUD – a Holistic Approach to Food Security (Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• Status of Mangroves Forests of Ecuador—and Development of Genetic Markers for Species Differentiation and DNA Barcoding (Mayra Galindo, Miriam Alcivar and Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• Heavy Metals and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) in Mangroves Sediments – a Global Database (Susan Barton)

• The Whole Mangrove: Quantifying the Suite of Ecosystem Services and Values Associated with Nearshore Habitat (Jodie Toft, Mary Ruckelshaus, Anne Guerry, Katie Arkema, Joanna Bernhardt and Gregory Guannel)

• A Review of Taura Syndrome Virus (TSV) – Exploring the Role of Transposable Elements-Like Repeats in New TSV Isolates, in the Shrimp Genome, and in the Penaeid Anti-Viral Immune Response (Natalie Isaksson, Laura Hake and Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• Laminin Receptor (LAMR) Is a Potential Receptor Protein for Taura Syndrome Virus (TSV) and Yellow Head Virus (Amornrat Phongdara, Aekkaraj Nualla-Ong and Saengchan Senapin)

• WSSV-Like ORFS and Transposable Element-Like Repeats in the Genome of Marsupenaeus Japonicus, Penaeus monodon and Litopenaeus vannamei (Shana Singh, Michal Plocienniczak, Laura Hake and Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• The Role of Reverse Transcriptase (RTE)-Like and Other Non-LTR Retrotransposons in the Response of Shrimp to IHHNV, WSSV, TSV and IMNV Infections (Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• Taiwan Shrimp Genome Consortium Fosmid Library End Sequencing Reveals a Rarely Known Genome Structure and Novel Repetitive Sequences of Marine Shrimp Penaeus monodon (Hon-Tsen Yu)

• Using Recombinant PM-Fortilin in Feeding to Protect Penaeus vannamei Against White Spot Syndrome Virus (Amornrat Phongdara, Patuma Sinthujaroen, Tanate Panrat, Benjamas Nupan and Warapond Wanna)

• Fortilin, a Shrimp Virus-Resistance Gene That Is Also Implicated in the Human Acute Allergic Response, Contains Retro-transposons-like Repeats and Is Polymorphic in Cultured and Wild Shrimp (Natalie Isaksson, Acacia Alcivar-Warren, Alexandra Bowen, Jacqueline Presedo and Laura Hake)

• Shrimp Allergens, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCS) and Transposable Element (TE)-Like Repeats: a Review  (Jacqueline Presedo, Alexandra Bowen, Laura Hake and Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• Transposable Element-Like Repeats in Allergy Causing Genes Isolated from SPF Litopeneaus vannamei Postlarvae Exposed to 1 Ppm of Cadmium (Alexandra Bowen, Jacqueline Presedo, Laura Hake and Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• The Plasticity of the Shrimp Genome – Sex, Retrotransposons, Ribosomal Rnas, Growth Performance and Disease Susceptibility (Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• Investigating the Link Between Environmental Contamination and 250 Cases of Congenital Malformations at the Peninsula of Santa Elena, Ecuador – a Case Study (Diego Alejandro, Christian Alcivar and Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

•  “You Are What You Eat/Somos Lo Que Comemos”: Preliminary Results on Hematological and Chemical Parameters in Blood from People Living Near Estuarine Mangroves of Ecuador (Andres Espinoza, Pedro Andrade, Marco Fornisini, Manuel Baldeon, Miriam Alcivar, Mayra Galindo, Diego Alejandro, Francisca Murgueitio, Christian Saltos, Jorge Tello and Acacia Alcivar-Warren)

• New Synthetic Replikins Aquaculture Vaccines Against TSV and WSSV Viruses and ISAV in Salmon (Samuel Bogoch and Elenore S. Bogoch)

Recirculation Systems

Friday, March 2, 2012, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Chairman, Erik Kopache

• Comparing Salinities of 10, 20, and 30 PPT in Minimal-Exchange, Intensive Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Culture Systems (Andrew J. Ray)

Posters

in Exhibit Hall

• Genotyping of White Spot Syndrome Virus on Wild and Farm Crustaceans from Sonora, Mexico (José Reyes Gonzalez-Galaviz, Cuauhtemoc Ibarra-Gamez, Libia Rodriguez-Anaya, Cecilia Luna-Badillo, Zinnia Molina-Garza, Roberto Mercado-Hernandez, Lucio Galaviz-Silva and Jose Ibarra)

• Effects of Dietary Protide™ as a Fish Meal Replacer in Juvenile White Leg Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Hyeonho Yun, Jun-Ho Lee, Gunhyun Park, Sungchul C. Bai, in Kwon Jang, Jindong Kim, Sejin Lim and Jeong-Yeol Lee)

• In Vivo Digestibility of Shrimp-Head Silage Protein Hydrolysate and Corn Bran for Adults of Red Tilapia Oreochromis Sp. (Francisco Javier Valdez González, Hervey Rodríguez González and Breidy Lizeth Cuevas Rodríguez)

• Growth Evaluation of the White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Fed with Macroalga Flour in the Formulation of the Balanced Food (Hervey Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Pedro Villalobos-Medina, Javier Orduña-Rojas, Arturo Polanco-Torres and Ely Sara López-Alvarez)

• Is Pelagic Tuna Roe Suitable for Maturation Diet for Penaeus vannamei Broodstock? (John Brown and Hui Gong)

• Re-evaluation of the Optimum Dietary Protein Requirements of Juvenile White Leg Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Hyeonho Yun, Sungchul Bai, in Kwon Jang, Eun-Ji Kim and Jeong-Yeol Lee)

• Effects of Yucca Schidigera and Quillaja Saponaria Extracts on the Growth, Survival and Digestive Enzymes Activities of Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Juveniles (Mario Hernández-Acosta, Pablo González-Alanís, Stephen G. Nelson, Rodrigo Otero, J. Alejandro Ramos-Rodríguez, Carlos Alfonso Álvarez-González and Kevin Fitzsimmons)

• Pathogens in Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931) and Their Relationship with Physicochemical Parameters in Three Different Culture Systems in Tamaulipas, Mexico (Gilberto Gutiérrez-Salazar, Zinnia Molina-Garza, Mario Hernández-Acosta, Francisco Guzmán-Sáenz, Juan García-Salas, Roberto Mercado-Hernández and Lucio Galaviz-Silva)

• Studies on the Mitochondrial 16s RRNA/TRNAVAL Regions of Brine Shrimp Species from Tropical Salterns in South Coast of India–a Molecular Approach (Vetriselvan Manavalan)

• White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Culture at Low-Salinity Well Water with Different Ionic Composition: Condition State Based on Length and Weight (Wenceslao Valenzuela-Quiñónez, Gerardo Rodriguez-Quiroz and Hector Manuel Esparza-Leal)

• Shrimp Culture in the Presence of WSSV During the 2011 Cycle in Two Farms of Sonora, Mexico (Misael Rosales-Leija, Mayra L. González-Félix, Martin Perez-Velazquez and Addison L. Lawrence)

• White Spot Syndrome Virus Isolate of Penaeus vannamei from Sonora, Mexico During 2005-2010 Exhibit Variation in Their ORF (Libia Rodriguez-Anaya, Jose Reyes Gonzalez-Galaviz, Lucio Galaviz-Silva, Cecilia Luna-Badillo, Ramon Casillas-Hernandez, Fernando Lares-Villa, Cuautemoc Ibarra-Gamez and Jose Ibarra)

• Optimization of a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) for the Treatment of Shrimp Production Wastewater (Raj Boopathy)

• Nutrient Reduction of High-Intensity Shrimp Wastewater Using a Full Scale Sequencing Batch Reactor (Clayton Kern, Raj Boopathy, Quenton Fontenot and Marilyn Kilgen)

Sources: 1. Email to Shrimp News international from Terry T. Rakestraw. Subject: Summer, Fall, Winter 2011 AES News.  February 2, 2012.  2. Email to Shrimp News International from Louis D’Abramo.  Subject: 2012 Shrimp Sessions.  January 10, 2012.  3. Email to Shrimp News International from John Cooksey on February 9, 2012. 4. Bob Rosenberry, Shrimp News international, February 10, 2012.