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Blue frontiers: managing the environmental costs of aquaculture
Type: Report
The report begins with an overview of the current status of world aquaculture. It then goes on to describe an approach for estimating the current combined biophysical resource demands of aquaculture for producer countries ...
Genetic enhancement and conservation of aquatic biodiversity in Africa
Type: Journal Article
There is a pressing need to enhance fish production in Africa through improved farm management and the use of improved fish breeds and/or alien species in aquaculture while at the same time conserve the aquatic genetic ...
Use of genetically improved and alien species for aquaculture and conservation of aquatic biodiversity in Africa
Type: Conference Proceedings
Aquaculture species are being domesticated and improved through genetic enhancement. Despite the benefits of improved fish in terms of increased production, there are risks associated with conservation of biodiversity when ...
Wetlands management in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: an overview of the pressures and responses
Type: Report
This paper introduces the characteristics of the Delta and outlines the pressures that are impinging on the sustainability of the Delta's wetlands. Although these pressures are non-linear and interacting, three are considered ...
Integrated resources management, integrated agriculture-aquaculture and the African farmer
Type: Journal Article
Despite the expenditure of huge amounts of money and human effort, the Green Revolution has largely failed to benefit the vast majority of the rural poor in Africa: those smallholding farmers who sell little, if any, of ...
Integrated agriculture-aquaculture: a way for food security for small farmers and better resource management and environment
Type: Conference Paper
Traditionally fish have been a natural component of rice-ecosystems. Intensive agriculture has led to degradation offish habitats, resulting in disappearance of fish from rice fields. The economic viability and impact on ...
Mangrove forests and shrimp culture in Ngoc Hien District, Minh Hai Province, Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
As a result of increased population growth, the attraction of high profits from shrimp culture and ineffective mangrove forest management, a number of serious environmental problems exist in Ngoc Hien District, Minh Hai ...
Integrated smallholder agriculture aquaculture in Asia: optimizing trophic flows
Type: Book Chapter
A nutrient modelling approach was applied to show how the combination of crops, trees, livestock, and fish, that is, integrated agriculture-aquaculture (IAA), helps in optimizing trophic flows in Asian rice-based agroecosystems. ...
Perspectives on aquaculture
Type: Conference Paper
In October 1973, a small group of fisheries experts met at The Rockefeller Founda-tion. Present were specialists from the Foundation and representatives of other concerned organizations, including ten other private ...
Status and conservation of Reeves shad resources in China
Type: Journal Article
An endangered fish species in China, Reeves shad (Tenualosa reversii), is finding hope of restoration and conservation in aquaculture and induced breeding efforts spearheaded by the Yangtze River Fisheries Management ...