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Philippine tilapia economics
Type: Conference Proceedings
Full proceedings of the 1983 PCARRD-ICLARM Workshop on Philippine Tilapia Economics held at Laguna, Philippines. The workshop brought together Philippine researchers who had conducted economic analyses of tilapia operations. ...
Southeast Asian milkfish culture: economic status and prospects
Type: Conference Paper
Historically, milkfish (Chanos chanos Forsskal) has been the premier aquaculture product in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Taiwan. However, there are significant differences in the industry's performance among and within ...
Development and management of cockle Anadara granosa culture in Malaysia
Type: Report
The main objectives of this project are to provide guidelines for the effective management and development of natural cockle seed resources and their future conservation to supply an expanding cockle industry. To assess ...
Inputs as related to output in milkfish production in the Philippines
Type: Report
Recall and recordkeeping surveys of 324 farms demonstrate the potential for improving yields in Philippine milkfish farms. Implications of observed economies of scale are also discussed.
Key problem areas on world aquacultural development
Type: Journal Article
Interest in the large-scale development of aquaculture as a manageable food production system has intensified considerably during the past decade. The escalation of development efforts stems, by and large, from 1) the need ...
The economics of the milkfish fry and fingerling industry of the Philippines
Type: Report
An in-depth report on all aspects of this important industry.
Microeconomics of existing aquaculture production systems: basic concepts and definitions
Type: Book Chapter
The paper focuses on the role of the relative prices in farmers' production behaviour and presents a model for explaining output variations among farmers. In the context of this production mode, the concepts of output ...
Milkfish production dualism in the Philippines: a multidisciplinary perspective on continuous low yields and constraints to aquaculture development
Type: Report
Determines and measures the constraints to the adoption of more intensive fertilizer application rates among Philippine milkfish farmers. Hypothesized 56 explanatory variables, categorized into socioeconomic, institutional, ...
Tilapia production booms in the Philippines
Type: Journal Article
Tilapia 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 ...
Research issues in aquaculture economics
Type: Journal Article
With 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 ...