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Volume 5, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Fisheries Livest Prod
ISSN: 2332-2608 JFLP, an open access journal Aquaculture Summit 2017
May 25-26, 2017
May 25-26, 2017 Osaka, Japan
6th Global Summit on
Aquaculture and Fisheries 2017
A highly sensitive underwater video system for use in turbid aquaculture ponds
Chin-Chang Hung
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
The turbid, low-light waters characteristic of aquaculture ponds have made it difficult or impossible for previous video cameras
to provide clear imagery of the ponds’ benthic habitat. We developed a highly sensitive, underwater video system (UVS) for this
particular application and tested it in shrimp ponds having turbidities typical of those in southern Taiwan. The system’s high-quality
video stream and images, together with its camera capacity (up to nine cameras), permit in situ observations of shrimp feeding
behavior, shrimp size and internal anatomy, and organic matter residues on pond sediments. The UVS can operate continuously
and be focused remotely, a convenience to shrimp farmers. The observations possible with the UVS provide aquaculturists with
information critical to provision of feed with minimal waste; determining whether the accumulation of organic-matter residues
dictates exchange of pond water; and management decisions concerning shrimp health.
Biography
Chin-Chang Hung is currently a Professor of the Department of Oceanography at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He completed his PhD at Old Dominion
University, Virginia, USA. His research interests are to better understand mechanisms affecting marine carbon biogeochemical cycling in the ocean and to study
extreme atmospheric events, dust storms, typhoons and extreme cold event, affecting nutrient dynamics, plankton community composition, biological pump and
particulate organic carbon export flux in the ocean. Currently, he also works on application of aquaculture technology to monitor marine plankton, shrimp behavior
and aquatic environment management.
Chin-Chang Hung, J Fisheries Livest Prod 2017, 5:2 (Suppl)