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The Japanese restocking program
Type: Journal Article
In scale of operations, variety of species produced, amount of financial backing, and degree of popular and official support, the Japanese fisheries restocking program (saibai gyogyo) is unique. From its birth in 1962 when ...
Fish pens of Laguna de Bay, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines, has a catchment of about 290,000 ha, a surface area of about 90,000 ha, an average depth of 2.8 m and temperatures of 22-34°C, with little or no thermal stratification. ...
Mollusc fisheries in Thailand
Type: Journal Article
Shellfish production in Thailand has ranged between 50,000 and 300,000 mt over the past twenty years, with recent production around 120,000 mt/yr. Major species are green (Perna viridis ) and horse mussels (Modiolus ...
Oil, fish and the sun and the wind
Type: Journal Article
The energy sources of importance in the fishing industry are discussed in detail. An account is given of fish catching,fish growing and fish saving and the role energy plays in each. Wind, sun and biogas are all considered ...
Management of Philippine marine parks
Type: Journal Article
The author gives an overview of the situation and legislation on the management of the Philippines marine parks
The relationships between gill surface area and growth performance in fish: a generalization of von Bertalanffy's theory of growth
Type: Journal Article
This paper is an attempt to interpret some of the data on fish growth available in the literature, emphasis is being given to a reassessment of von Bertalanffy's theory of growth as applied to fishes.
Salmon ranching in Chile: the Japanese project
Type: Journal Article
In 1969 and 1970, Japanese experts commissioned by the Japan Fisheries Association and biologists of the Chilean Division Pesca y Caza undertook ecological and physiochemical surveys of the water resources in Chile which ...
The athu kotu (brush park) fishery of Sri Lanka
Type: Journal Article
The fishermen of the mangrove estuaries of western Sri Lanka have evolved a system of fishing that creates an artificial mangrove habitat. It consists of a pile of mangrove brushwood being placed in the shallows of the ...
Salmon ranching in Chile: ICLARM's role
Type: Journal Article
In 1976, ICLARM, in cooperation with the Oceanic Institute (Hawaii) and with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Tinker Foundation, developed a proposal based on a hypo-thesis by Dr. Timothy Joyner ...
Successful introduction of mussels to Padre Burgos, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
The introduction of green mussels (Perna viridis ) is Padre viridis) in Padre Burgos, Philippines, is described. Spat settlement, although small so far, is a strong positive indication that mussel culture is feasible in ...