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Scaling out enhanced floodplain productivity by poor communities: aquaculture and fisheries in Bangladesh and eastern India
Type: Conference Paper
Rearing fish in seasonal floodplains raises productivity but can adversely affect the poor and the biodiversity of important natural fisheries. Equitable community institutions enable poor rural households to cooperate ...
Policies on release of improved fish strains in China
Type: Conference Paper
Since 1991, the certification, release and maintenance of new species for aquaculture have become part of the national policy in China. During the past 15 years, this policy has been conducted and improved and has begun ...
Adoption and farm-level impact of genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) in the Philippines
Type: Conference Paper
Over the last four decades, the aquaculture sector especially in developing countries has experienced dramatic growth. The increase in aquaculture production is a combination of area expansion and technological change ...
Risk factors and opportunities of intensive shrimp (Penaeus Monodon) production in Bangladesh
Type: Conference Paper
Shrimp aquaculture play an important role in Bangladesh economy. It provides livelihood of several hundred thousand small-scale shrimp farmers and about half a billion United States dollars export revenue each year. The ...
Women in aquaculture: initiatives of Caritas Bangladesh
Type: Conference Paper
In Bangladesh, women have proven to be competent in adopting aquaculture technologies, despite the fact that their role in aquaculture growth has not been sufficiently recognized and remains inadequately addressed. To ...
Market potential and challenges for expanding the production of sea cucumber in South-East Asia
Type: Conference Paper
The marketing system for sea cucumber in South-East Asia is generally inefficient, and marketing channels are multilayered. Information asymmetry encourages proliferation of redundant players in the distribution system, ...
Mass selection for increased body weight at harvest over five generations in silver barb, Puntius gonionotus
Type: Conference Paper
Silver barb (Puntius gonionotus Bleeker 1850) is an Asian carp that is popular as a food fish. It is distributed throughout Thailand in rivers, canals, reservoirs and swamps. It is also cultured in ponds and paddy fields. ...
Scaling out enhanced floodplain productivity by poor communities: aquaculture and fisheries in Bangladesh
Type: Conference Paper
Private lands in floodplains are vital components of inland natural fisheries but they are increasingly converted to culture-based systems. This raises fish productivity but can adversely affect the poor and biodiversity. ...
Demand for fish in Asia: a cross-country analysis
Type: Conference Paper
This study is focused on the estimation of demand, price and income elasticities for major fish groups that are commonly found in Asia. The next section of the paper is devoted to the model used in the analysis of the ...
Genetics of flesh quality in fish
Type: Conference Paper
Flesh quality has gained importance among consumers and in the aquaculture industry because it is directly related to human health and nutrition. Flesh quality comprises several different (freshness, appearance, smell, ...