Handbook · Aquaculture
The Microbiome Management Handbook
Aquaculture Operations Edition
Why productive, resilient aquaculture systems begin with the biological environments inside and around the animal.
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- Status
- Coming soon
- Date
- 2 September 2026
- Publisher
- Fulgenix Farms
- Review
- External scientific review has not been completed for this edition.
- Length
- 68 pages, PDF
- Living system
- Aquaculture
What you will learn
To understand the biological system well enough to ask better questions about how we manage it.
Who it is for
Written for aquaculture producers.
Inside the publication
Twelve parts.
- Part IThe production challenge
- Part IIThe animal inside the water
- Part IIIWater as a biological system
- Part IVMultiple microbiomes, one biological system
- Part VAquaculture system stability
- Part VIMicrobiome Management
- Part VIIBiological mechanisms
- Part VIIIThe University of Guelph research
- Part IXWhen biology appears in production
- Part XDifferent systems, same principle
- Part XILiving the principles
- Part XIIPutting biology into practice
Sources in the evidence library
Two of the sources this handbook draws on, summarised in the evidence library. They inform particular chapters; they do not validate the handbook as a whole.
Trout fed a humic and fulvic top‑coating over 140 days grew heavier than controls.
Chiasson et al., 2026
Humic acid in incubation water was followed by higher hatch survival in trays, but not in jars.
Chiasson, Kirk and Huyben, 2023
Publication details
- Authorship
- Published by The Carbon Biome Project under the Fulgenix Farms name.
- Commercial relationships
- Published under the Fulgenix Farms name, the brand serving commercial livestock and aquaculture.
- Edition history
- 2 September 2026 · September 2026 edition · First edition.5 October 2026 · September 2026 edition, revised · The published statistics of the trout feed trial replace the earlier report's.