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Carp genetic improvement programs
Type: Brief
The Carp Genetic Improvement Program is the only program of its kind in the world concentrating on catla and silver carp as well as being the largest familybased selection program for rohu. The methods are similar to those ...
Myanmar inland fisheries and aquaculture: A decade in review
Type: Book
This publication reviews the current state of knowledge of inland capture fisheries and aquaculture in Myanmar, using data from the past decade. The book aims to highlight challenges and opportunities in Myanmar’s fisheries ...
Aquaculture's unrealised potential: an ASARECA funded partnership learning programme for the fisheries sector
Type: Brief
The potential of aquaculture to reduce poverty and hunger has been recognised in Africa. However, growth in the sector has been limited up-to-now, providing less than 2% of total fish production. In Eastern and Central ...
Fish consumption in urban Lusaka: The need for aquaculture to improve targeting of the poor
Type: Journal Article
Aquaculture in Zambia is growing and likely to play an important role for food and nutrition security in the country. While outputs in capture fisheries and small-scale aquaculture are stagnating, commercial aquaculture ...
Investigating the role of algae in tilapia production
Type: Journal Article
Evidence for the role of algae as food in tilapia production is contradictory and typifies a general uncertainty about the importance of algae-to-fish food pathway in aquaculture. Viewpoints regarding the importance of ...
Performance of the Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) strain over ten generations of selection in Malaysia
Type: Journal Article
A selection programme using Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP) method for the estimation of genetic merit was implemented by the Department of Fisheries Malaysia (DOF) in collaboration with the WorldFish Centre. This ...
Demand for fish in Sub-Saharan Africa: the past and the future
Type: Journal Article
The Sub-Saharan region of Africa accounted for only 5.5% of the world's demand for fish from 1989 to 1991, inspite of comprising 9% of the global population. This study was carried out to determine the future demand for ...
Report of a six month training period with the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Taiwan from November 1983 to May 1984
Type: Report
This report deals with some of the experiences during a six months training period undertaken by the author. This field training is part of the requirements for a Masters Degree in fish culture and fisheries at the ...
Aquaculture technology transfer to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Southern Africa
Type: Journal Article
Details are given of activities conducted in Zomba, Malawi, in order to demonstrate new aquaculture technologies and encourage their use by smallholder fish farmers. The following technologies were introduced: napier grass ...
Training manual on improved rice-fish culture and dyke cropping
Type: Manual
Due to lack of sufficient technical knowledge and training on improved rice-fish culture which is expanding every day, many farmers are not getting optimum results in production. World Fish Center, from the start of the ...