Aquaculture Canada 2006 Proceedings of Contributed Papers

AAC Special Publication No. 12

 Proceedings of the Contributed Papers of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Aquaculture Association of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 19-22, 2006.
Linda D. Hiemstra, editor
ISBN 978-0-9780943-1-7
© 2007 Aquaculture Association of Canada
Printed by Taylor Printing Group Inc., Fredericton, NB
Front cover: Logo designed by D. Green

Table of Contents..................................................................................................................................................3
President’s Report ...............................................................................................................................................5
Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award.............................................................................................................9
Research Award of Excellence ........................................................................................................................10
Aquaculture CanadaOM 2006 Partners and Sponsors...............................................................................13
Aquaculture Association of Canada Board of Directors 2005/2006..........................................................14

Chilean Cluster Evolution: Culturing Quality and Confidence...................................................................15
Adolfo Alvial and Felipe Bañados

Framed Salmon: How an ENGO Coalition Frames the Salmon Farming Issue in British
Columbia..............................................................................................................................................................26
Mary Ellen Walling and Linda D. Hiemstra

Growth, Feeding and Motile Behaviour in Blue Mussels (Mytilus sp.) in the Presence of the
Starfish, Asterias vulgaris .................................................................................................................................32
J. Power and C. Couturier

Grow-out of Soft-shell Clams, Mya arenaria, Before Seeding ...................................................................36
Lise Chevarie, Bruno Myrand and Réjean Tremblay

Development of Open-sea Mussel Culture in Iles-de-la-Madeleine: Four Years Later........................40
François Bourque, Bruno Myrand and Guglielmo Tita

Harpacticoid Copepods in a Cold Marine Mesocosm: Production in Sand Filters and Diel
Migrations in the Water Column.......................................................................................................................44

Serge Parent, Catherine Beauchamp, Kahina Tala Ighil and Daniel Gagnon
Seeding Soft-Shell Clam (Mya arenaria L.) Spat along the Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia.....................49

Audrie-Jo McConkey and Robbin Linds

Follow-up of Sea Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) Spat Loss in the Gaspe Bay, Quebec..........53
B. Thomas, M. Giguère and É. Tamigneaux

Modeling and Design of a Submersible Longline System for Near and Offshore Blue Mussel
(Mytilus edulis) Culture .....................................................................................................................................57
M. Liutkus, C. Couturier and J. Cross

Egg Enumeration, Incubation, Hatching and Development of the “Miracle Fish”, Oreochromis
niloticus, in the Sudan.......................................................................................................................................60
Afra A-A.Ahmed, Musab S. Abdalla and Prof. Thomas T. George

An Integrated Bio-Treatment System for the Management of Land-Based Aquaculture Solids ........65
Manoj Ramachandran, Kripa Singh, Bruce Wilson, Michel Couturier

Performance Characteristics of the Horizontal Moving-Bed Biofilter .......................................................70
Jessica Conroy, Michel Couturier, Zhijie Ma, Ying Zheng, and Adrian Desbarats

Velocity Profiles in Multi-drain Circular Tanks...............................................................................................73
Benoît Despres and Michel Couturier

Méthodes D’hivernage des Filières D’élevage des Bivalves ....................................................................76
Sylvio Doiron

Characterization of Wolffish Hybrids (Anarhichas minor X A. lupus) .......................................................79
Catherine M. Gaudreau, Nathalie R. Le François, Pierre U. Blier and Helge Tveiten

Compression of the Reproduction Cycle of Spotted Wolffish (Anarhichas minor) ...............................84
Bernard-Antonin Dupont Cyr, Nathalie R. Le François, Robert L. Roy, Helge Tveiten and Grant Vandenberg

Pathological Health Survey of Bivalves from Experimental and Farming Sites ....................................89
Sonia Belvin, Réjean Tremblay, Charley Cyr and Benoit Thomas

Prospective Analysis of Aquaculture Development: A Delphi Approach .................................................94
Nathanael Hishamunda, Florence Poulain and Neil Ridler

Enhancing Sustainability of Salmon Culture in Canada: A Socio-economic Analysis of Multitrophic
Aquaculture (IMTA) .............................................................................................................................................97
N. Ridler, K. Barrington, M. Wowchuk, T. Chopin, S. Robinson, F. Page, G. Reid, M. Szemerda, J. Sewuster and
S. Boyne-Travis

DEPOMOD in Relation to Salmon Farming in the Southwest New Brunswick Area of the Bay of
Fundy..................................................................................................................................................................100
F. H. Page, R. Losier, P. McCurdy, B. D. Chang

Errata of the Proceedings of Contributed Papers of the Canadian

Freshwater Aquaculture Symposium AAC Special Publication No. 11
Aquaculture Sustainability: Developing Concepts of a Decision Support Tool for Licensing

Aquaculture Sustainability: Developing Concepts of a Decision Support Tool for Licensing Freshwater Cage Aquaculture in Ontario....................................................................................................................................106
Richard D. Moccia and Gregor K. Reid

Results from Sediment Surveys in the Vicinity of Freshwater Net-pen Aquaculture Operations in
the North Channel...........................................................................................................................................115

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