Information and Communication Technology

6.2.9 AquaCalc 1.0

aquaCalc (version 1.0) is a series of 12 pre-Programmed, easy-to-use calculators that do many of the basic calculations required to design and run an aquaculture facility. Funded by Texas Sea Grant, the software was developed by EcoMar Mariculture. Whether the user is working with finfish or crustaceans, this Programme can be a real time saver. The Programme is organized into three categories - design calculators, operations calculators and conversion calculators, and comes with a detailed user’s manual. aquaCalc 1.0 has been tested and used by commercial aquaculture facilities (both finfish and crustacean) for the monitoring and daily control of important parameters such as oxygen, NH3 production, feed rates, pH and alkalinity, and un-ionized NH3. aquaCalc software can also assist with converting a variety of units commonly encountered in aquaculture, such as biomass, productivity, energy, power, flow rate, nitrogen, oxygen, length, area, mass, temperature, alkalinity and volume. The user can quickly convert meters to inches or feet, or convert hectares to acres, litres to gallons or to cubic meters, temperature in degrees C to temperature in degrees F, and many more conversions. aquaCalc includes conversions for shrimp such as count-per-pound of shrimp and carapace length. It also includes finfish conversions such as standard length or fork length to whole weight, and many more useful conversions to assist the fish and shrimp farmer make their job easier. Source: Texas A&M University, Sea Grant College Programme, 2700 Earl Rudder Fwy South, Suite 1800, College Station, Texas 77845. USA.