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A hatchery manual for the common, Chinese and Indian major carps (2nd rev ed.)
Type: Working Paper
This major work on carp hatchery and nursery methods was part of an Asian Development Bank (ADB) project to improve carp seed production technology in ADB-member countries notably Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia, Nepal, ...
Time to reappraise rice-fish culture
Type: Journal Article
Rice-fish culture in Asia is discussed, examining reasons for the current decline in the practice. Factors of importance for a reappraisal of rice-fish culture and development of new technologies and management systems are ...
Innovative Thai bivalve hatchery makes significant progress
Type: Journal Article
Bivalve culture in Thailand is discussed, describing pilot hatchery operations at Prachuap.
The general von Bertalanffy growth function: possible use in the Beverton and Holt model
Type: Journal Article
Using the concept of generalized Von Bertalanffy growth formula developed by Pauly and Gasch? tz, we tried to integrate the basic equation of Beverton and Holt and to check on changes in the quantitative evaluation of ...
Shrimp processing in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
The shrimp industry in Bangladesh is the major fisheries foreign exchange earner. The various processing industries consist of freezing plants, smoking/drying factories and meal factories. Details are given of the freezing ...
Democratic Yemen fisheries: cuttlefish and sea cucumber
Type: Journal Article
Cuttlefish form the largest fishery in the coastal waters of the Yemen; Sepia pharonis is the commercial variety fished. Details are given of the fishing season, overfishing, foreign collaboration and regulation measures. ...
Salinity tolerance of the tilapias Oreochromis aureus, O. niloticus and an O. mossambicus X O. niloticus hybrid
Type: Report
Studies ontogenetic changes in salinity tolerance in tilapias spawned and reared in freshwater using the indices of median lethal salinity, mean survival time and median survival time. Discusses implications of findings ...
External aid in fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries aid in developing countries is discussed briefly, considering small-scale fisheries and aquaculture, and also examining who provides and who receives the aid.
Preliminary length-based growth parameter estimates of peruvian sardine (Sardinops Sagax Sagax)
Type: Journal Article
Growth parameter estimates of the Peruvian sardine (Sardinops sagax sagax ) were obtained using the ELEFAN I programme to analyze length-frequency data.
On improving operation and use of the elefan programs. part 1, avoiding "drift" of K towards low values
Type: Journal Article
The article proposes improvements for the ELEFAN programs describing how they may be used for optimum output, considering the von Bertalanffy growth equation and the K parameter.