AquaFarm

System Design and Management Planning

Aquaculture Development Decision Support System (ADDSS)

Source	PingSun Leung, Dept. Of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 3050 Maile Way, Gilmore 115, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. Tel: (808) 956-8562, Fax: 956-2811. Email: psleung@hawaii.edu
Use	A prototype DSS for planning and developing the aquaculture industry in a given region. Uses a combination of econometric models and databases to provide guidance on the most appropriate species to culture, production technology, and level of production intensity.
Status	Availability not known

Aquaculture Simulation and Database Management

Source	See source at: www.geocities.com:80/ResearchTriangle/Facility/4709/Sap/Default.htm
Use	Various aquaculture simulation and data management programs. See description at web site.
Status	Available (see web site)

AquaFarm

Source

Doug Ernst

Web: www.AquaFarm.com

Email: See 'Contact' under the main menu.

Use

AquaFarm (© Doug Ernst, 2000-2007) is a simulation, data management, and decision-support system for aquaculture system design and management planning. AquaFarm can be applied to a wide range of plant and animal aquaculture production facilities, including static and recirculating green-water pond systems, intensive water reuse and recirculation systems, and flow-through systems.

For a comprehensive description of AquaFarm see: Ernst, D.H., Bolte, J.P., Nath, S.S., 2000. AquaFarm: simulation and decision support for aquaculture facility design and management planning, Aquacultural Engineering (23)1-3, pp. 121-179 [PDF document, 1113 Kbytes]

Status

Release date to be announced.

DESTA

Source

DESTA: a software tool for selecting sites for new aquaculture facilities.

Contact: Ya-Ke Hsu at ykhsu@mail.tfrin.gov.tw

Use

See technical paper in Aquaculture Engineering 18 (1998): 79-93

Status

Availability not known

Fish Bioenergetics Model 3.0

Source	University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, Email: linda@aqua.wisc.edu, Web: http://limnology.wisc.edu/research/bioenergetics/bioenergetics.html
Use	Management and use of fish growth data for bioenergetic analyses. Includes CD-ROM software and user manual.
Status	Available (see web site)

NID-Tech

Source	Dr. A. M. D'Silva, Environmental Research Laboratory, Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. Email: dsilva@ccit.arizona.edu
Use	Water quality management and environmental assessment, aquaculture and fisheries calculations.
Status	Availability not known

POND

Source	John Bolte, Biosystems Analysis Group, Bioresource Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3906, USA. Phone: 541-737-6303. FAX: 541-737-2082. Email: boltej@engr.orst.edu Price: mail ($25 within the US, $50 for overseas addresses; add $75 for POND Tutorial) or on-line (free). Internet access is available at http://biosys.bre.orst.edu/pond/pond.htm
Use	POND (© Oregon State University, 1998 - 2003) is a Microsoft Windows-based decision support system for warmwater pond aquaculture. Simulation-based pond dynamics and fish performance projections provide a comprehensive and integrated analytical framework to compare alternative production strategies for warmwater finfish production, including stocking, feeding, fertilization, liming and water management practices. Generates graphical outputs for examining facility climate variables, water temperature and quality, bacterial, primary, and secondary productivity, pond fertilization and liming, natural and artificial fish feed utilization, and fish growth and survival. An in-built parameter estimation package generates fish growth parameters from user supplied fish growth data. An integrated economics package enables enterprise budget generation for each production trial.
Status	Available (see web site)

The Aquaculture Planning Simulator (APS)

Source	Mario Pedini, Fishery Resources Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Via Delle Terme Di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Price: $NA.
Use	A database module of the two aquaculture information systems of the FAO, SIPAM and SIPAL. An analytical tool for evaluation of project proposals by comparison of technical and economic parameters against similar projects already in operation and included in the database. Required software: runtime version of KnowledgePro and access to Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) through CD_ROM or Dialog via modem.
Status	Availability not known