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AquaClear's review of key market indicators for aquacultural products demonstrates that rapidly growing demand for tilapia--a premium food fish--will present significant opportunities for economic growth to U.S. aquacultural firms through the fiscal year 2025. Demand for this product will continue to outstrip supply, and far exceed lagging U.S. production. Foreign imports currently supply 60% of ...

The proposed project seeks to identify superior strains of striped bass by evaluating the progeny of five wild strains collected from a broad geographic range. The collections are designed to evaluate genetically distinct strains. In order to control for the effect of family differences, five families will be collected from each of the strains and their performance will be evaluated and compared ...

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Open surgical castration is a routine procedure on neonatal boars to prevent the offensive odor known as "boar taint" which is released when meat from affected animals is cooked. Castration produces a predictable incidence of side-effects including stress, hemorrhage, hernia, infection and mortality, which become more prevalent if castration is performed after weaning. Castration also produces a ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to develop a feeding system for Southern Pine Beetle (SPB) hymenopterous parasites. This food, formulated to be applied in SPB infested southern pine forests, should increase the fecundity of adult SPB parasites thereby enhancing their ameliorating effects on the SPB population outbreaks. Natural enemies, including hymenopterous pa ...

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EXTENSIVE RESEARCH IS BEING CONDUCTED TO OPTIMIZE NITROGEN (N2) FIXATION RATE IN LEGUMINOUS CROPS, AND TO INTRODUCE N2-FIXING ABILITY INTO NONE-LEGUMINEOUS CROPS. THIS RESEARCH REQUIRES A METHOD TO CONDUCT CONTINUOUS, NININVASIVE MEASUREMENTS OF NITROGENASE ACTIVITY IN INTACT NODULATED ROOTS, PARTICULARLY IN FIELD STUDIES. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE METHODS ARE EITHER INHIBITORY OR ONLY PROVIDE MEASUREME ...

LOSSES RESULTING FROM GYPSY MOTH IN THE NORTHEAST IN 1981 ALONE WERE $764,000.000. THIS PEST IS DISPERSING TO 500,000 ACRES PER YEAR INTO AREAS OF ITS PERFERRED FOOD, THE MID- ATLANTIC STATES. MORE THAN TEN ISOLATED INFESTATIONS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING CALIFORNIA, ORGON, AND WASHINGTON. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS IN 1884 WITH A NEWLY IMPORTED PARAISTE, COSTESIA ME ...

STRESSES DUE TO PRESSURE AND REPEATED THERMAL CYCLING CAUSE PROGRESSIVE MATERIAL DAMAGE DURING THE OPERATION OF LWR COMPONENTS AND PIPING SYSTEMS. THE PRESENT PRO POSED RESEARCH WOULD IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF EXISTING S- N FATIGUE EVALUATION METHODS BY COMBINING THEM WITH THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OF CRACK PROPAGATION AND FRACTURE MECH ANICS. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE CRACK PROPAG ...