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On comparing groups of fishes based on length-weight relationships
Type: Journal Article
F. Torres, Jr., in a 1991 Fishbyte article, presented length-weight relationships derived from 122 graphs in van der Elst's 1981 "A guide to the common sea fishes of southern Africa". This author analyzes Torres's tabulated ...
Growth, mortality and recruitment of Omani abalone (Haliotis mariae)
Type: Journal Article
Historical length-frequency data of Oman abalone (Haliotis mariae) from two areas (Sadh and Hadbin) of the Dhofar coast of the Sultanate of Oman were used to estimate growth parameters by nonlinear least square fitting. ...
Production planning aids for a modular pond system
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents a series of short mathematical expressions that may be used to determine the necessary variables in production planning in a modular pond system for fish culture.
Edible seaweeds: an important source of food and income to indigenous Fijians
Type: Journal Article
The increasing harvest of 7 edible seaweeds in Fiji and their importance to the economy of indigenous Fijians are discussed. Traditional methods in the collection, preparation and consumption of seaweeds by the Fijians are ...
Preliminary results of a silver carp breeding program in Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
The article describes the silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys harmandi and Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) breeding program in Vietnam.
Integrated rice-prawn farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: a route towards sustainable and profitable farming systems?
Type: Journal Article
Economic analysis and performance of the integrated rice-prawn farming systems in the Mekong Delta (Vietnam) are reviewed, including the problems and constraints of this integrated system technology.
Trophic models of aquatic ecosystems
Type: Conference Proceedings
A large proportion of the contributions to the ICES Theme Session on "Trophic models in aquatic ecosystems" is presented, together with papers of a number of scientists and very experienced ecosystem modellers.
An ECOPATH II model of the Lake Chad system
Type: Book Chapter
The trophic ecosystem modelling software, ECOPATH II, was used to analyze the Lake Chad system, Africa, during its "normal" phase, the period between 1969 and 1972. Reasonable estimates of population-related parameters for ...
Flying fish season (Tauika) in Bellona
Type: Journal Article
Bellona is a Polynesian outlier island to the south of the main Solomon Islands group. Bellona, also known by the locals as Mu Ngiki, is a small elongated raised atoll wIiici5imeans it is almost completely surrounded by ...
Ex-situ conservation of the germplasm of aquatic organisms
Type: Journal Article
This paper summarizes some of the major issues relating to ex-situ conservation of the germplasm of aquatic organisms and gives examples of some current activities and future possibilities.