WorldFish Community: Recent submissions
Now showing items 3581-3600 of 5196
-
Development of aquatic animal genetic improvement and dissemination programs : current status and action plans
(2006)Type: ReportWorldFish Center in collaboration with the China Academy of Fishery Sciences organized the international “Workshop on Dissemination of Improved Fish Strains: Country-Specific Action Plans” on 21-22 September (2005) in ... -
Community-Based Fish Culture in Seasonal Floodplains
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleDuring the rainy season in extensive river floodplains and deltaic lowlands, floods render the land unavailable for crop production for several months each year. These waters are considerably underutilized in terms of ... -
Determining high potential aquaculture production areas: analysis of key socio-economic adoption factors
(2006)Type: Conference PaperGlobal aquaculture production increased with an average rate of 10% per year since 1990 and 90% of aquaculture production comes from developing countries thus providing livelihood and income especially to marginal groups ... -
Tilapia culture in Kuwait: constraints and solutions
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleTilapia farming in Kuwait is in its early stages. Slow growth, high production cost and poor demand are the major constraints to the expansion of tilapia culture in Kuwait. This article presents some suggestions for ... -
Baseline biochemical and genetic profiles of four fishes from the River Nile
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleSix enzyme systems coding for 10 loci and 6 proteins were examined in the blood of Polypterus senegalus, Clarias lazera, Tilapia nilotica and Protopterus annectens, using electrophoresis. Six loci were polymorphic in all ... -
Integrating fish into seasonally flooded rice fields: on-farm trials in Assam, India
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleIn the State of Assam, floodplains cover 2.6 million ha of area that is traditionally rice growing. The ecosystem in the rice-growing areas has undergone major changes as a result of various developmental activities and ... -
Small scale rural aquaculture in Assam, India: a case study
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleThe state of Assam in northeastern India has an excellent sub-tropical climate for the development of fresh water fish culture in a variety of aquatic bodies. Aquaculture not only plays an important role in nutrition but ... -
On-farm trials with rice fish cultivation in the west Kano rice irrigation scheme, Kenya
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleThe viability of integrating rice farming with fish culture was studied in ten (10) rice plots. The onfarm research was done during one rice-growing season starting May 2003. The rice variety used was IR 2793-80-1 while ... -
Challenges in sustaining and increasing fish production to combat hunger and poverty in Asia
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleFish and fisheries make a major contribution to nutritional security and the fight against hunger and poverty in Asia. An additional 37 million t of food fish will be needed by 2020 to meet the needs of the growing population, ... -
Perspectives from Agriculture: Advances in livestock breeding-Implications for aquaculture genetics
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleIn this paper we present livestock breeding developments that could be taken into consideration in the genetic improvement of farmed aquaculture species, especially in freshwater fish. Firstly, the current breeding objective ... -
Ongoing rehabilitation of coastal communities in Aceh province : a new project
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleThis article presents an overview of the project on Rehabilitation of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Tsunami-affected Coastal Communities in Aceh Province. Building on the research results from the recently completed projects ... -
The Economics of Shrimp farming in Selected Asian Countries
(2006)Type: Book ChapterThis paper discusses the status of shrimp farming and evaluates the level of profitability, the relative competitiveness in the production and trade of shrimp, and the technical efficiency of shrimp production in the major ... -
Remote sensing and field assessment of tsunami effects on coastal pond aquaculture in northern Sumatra
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleAn attempt was made to conduct spatial assessment of the pattern and extent of damage to coastal aquaculture ponds along the east coast of Aceh province in Sumatra, Indonesia, resulting from the tsunami event of 26 December ... -
Relative Importance of Various Predators in Clarias gariepinus Fry Mortality in Cameroon
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleTo estimate the relative importance of the most common predators of Clarias gariepinus fry, increasing levels of protection were afforded to exclude amphibians, aquatic arthropods and birds. At a stocking density of 10 ... -
Genetic management of aquaculture stocks in sub-Saharan Africa
(2006)Type: ReportThis document is a report of a workshop on genetic resource management in sub-Saharan Africa. -
Community-Based Fish Culture in Seasonal Floodplains
(2006)Type: Book ChapterDuring the rainy season in extensive river floodplains and deltaic lowlands, floods lasting several months render the land unavailable for crop production for several months each year. These waters are considerably ... -
Spatial Linear Approximate to Almost Ideal Demand System
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleThe paper introduces two spatial systems of demand equation models that are variants of the Linear Approximate to Almost Ideal Demand Systems (LA/AIDS) with habit formation. Specifically, the first model incorporates spatial ... -
A comparison of GIFT and red tilapia for fillet yield and sensory attributes of flesh quality assessed by trained panel
(2006)Type: Conference PaperTilapia is a tropical freshwater fish, predicted to become the largest aquaculture production in the world, after carps, shrimp and salmonids, in the present century (Fitzsimmons, 2000). In Malaysia 85 per cent of the ... -
Mass selection for increased body weight at harvest over five generations in silver barb, Puntius gonionotus
(2006)Type: Conference PaperSilver 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. ... -
Experimental evaluation of co-culture of juvenile sea cucumbers, Holothuria scabra (Jaeger), with juvenile blue shrimp, Litopenaeus stylirostris (Stimpson).
(2006)Type: Journal ArticleThe co-culture of juvenile sea cucumber Holothuria scabra (Jaeger), or ‘sandfish’, with juvenile blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris (Stimpson) was tested by growing groups in co-culture and monoculture for 3 weeks in ...
