WorldFish Community: Recent submissions
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Shrimp fisheries in Bangladesh
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleAn account is given of the shrimp fisheries in Bangladesh during the period of 1972 to 1983. -
Experimental approaches to the saltwater culture of tilapias
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleA summary is presented of studies undertaken regarding the salinity tolerance of tilapias. The implications of thefindings to the culture of tilapias in Taiwan are considered. -
On the seasonal growth, monthly recruitment and monthly biomass of Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) from 1961 to 1979
(1984)Type: Book ChapterThe paper reports on the application to the anchoveta of a newly developed set of methods for the investigaton of exploited fish stocks. the set of methods are incorporated in the ELEFAN (Electronic Length Frequency Analysis) ... -
Aquaculture research and training: Asian Institute of Technology
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleA account is given of the aquaculture courses available at the Aquaculture Research and Training Asian Institute of Technology, describing also the facilities and research directions which include a scheme to recycle ... -
Financing fisheries and aquaculture development: the bank's viewpoint
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleThe criteria applied by a development bank in taking investment or financing decisions rely basically upon thesocioeconomic merits of the investment project. Financing projects and mechanisms regarding fisheries andaquaculture ... -
Introducing the tilapias
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleThe tilapias are a group of African, freshwater herbivorous fish that care for their young. Their name is derived from an African Bushman word simply mean-ing fish. There are about 70 species, most of them native to western ... -
Giant shellfish hatchery begins production in Mexico
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleIn Mexico, the Direccion de Fomento Pesquero of the State Government of Sonora has financed a project for a shell fish hatchery and nursery complex at Bahia Kino on the Gulf of California which began production in January ... -
Monosex tilapia fry production
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleA description is given of the technique used at the Gan Shmuel Fish Breeding Center, in Hadera, Israel, for the commercial mass production of sex inversed Oreochromis hybrids using androgen diets. -
Tilapia hatcheries: lake or land based?
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleFollowing a brief description of lake-based hatcheries and nurseries for tilapias, the advantages as compared to land-based systems are discussed, indicating also some of the disadvantages. -
Natural spawning of captive milkfish in Taiwan
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleThe culture of milkfish in Taiwan is discussed with respect to work undertaken at the Tung Shin hatchery regardingnatural spawning in captivity. Broodstock maintenance and husbandry techniques used are described. -
Investigating the role of algae in tilapia production
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleEvidence 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 ... -
Tilapia production booms in the Philippines
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleTilapia is the second most popular cultured fish in the Philippines. Increased consumer demand is discussed briefly and an account is given of hatcheries, cage culture in lakes and land based grow-out systems. Future ... -
The development of tilapia culture in Taiwan
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleThe recent growth of Tilapia culture in Taiwan is discussed, describing the species involved. The major cultured tilapias are now all-male hybrids and red tilapias. -
Tilapia: the aquatic chicken
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleAcombination of technology and genetics has transformed the poultry industry into a highly complex business over the past thirty years. Tilapias are likened to chickens because the latter, unlike other major animal food ... -
Monsoon induced seasonality in the recruitment of Philippine fishes
(1984)Type: Book ChapterThe patterns of recruitment of 112 stocks of Philippine teleost fishes, from 23 families, 34 genera and 57 species, have been studied in detail. The annual recruitment patterns, which were obtained by the backward projection ... -
Research issues in aquaculture economics
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleWith fish protein supplies levelling off in many countries as limits to capture fisheries production are reached, aqua-culture is being viewed as the primary means of achieving the incremental growth in aquatic food supply ... -
Developing countries dominate the shrimp scene
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleOf the 101 shrimp-producing countries listed in the 1983 FAO Yearbook of Fishery Statistics, 70% are developing countries; the 4 leading producers from the Asia/Pacific region were India, China, Thailand, and Indonesia. ... -
Time to reappraise rice-fish culture
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleRice-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 ... -
Assessment of Pterocaesio Pisang (Bleeker, 1853; family Caesionidae) at APO and Sumilon Islands in central Visayas, Philippines
(1984)Type: Journal ArticleAn analysis is made of length-frequency data of Pterocaesio pisang for the period March 1982-April 1983 in order to assess the stock at APO and Sumilon islands. -
Preliminary length-based growth parameter estimates of peruvian sardine (Sardinops Sagax Sagax)
(1985)Type: Journal ArticleGrowth parameter estimates of the Peruvian sardine (Sardinops sagax sagax ) were obtained using the ELEFAN I programme to analyze length-frequency data.
