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Analysis of research for the development of tilapia farming: an interdisciplinary approach is lacking
Type: Journal Article
Tilapias, particularly Oreochromis spp., are farmed throughout the tropics and subtropics but most of the production comes from a few Asian countries. Global production increased by about 13%/yr from 1985 to 1989. A global ...
The Genetic Improvement of Farmed Tilapias (GIFT) project: the story so far
Type: Journal Article
This issue of Naga features three articles about a project on the Genetic Improvement of Farmed Tilapias (GIFT) and a related article on the trend to genetic deterioration in some carp hatcheries. The first is on the genesis ...
A program for constructing length-converted growth curves when growth is seasonal
Type: Journal Article
Following Sparre's (1990) demonstration that length-converted catch curves overestimate total mortality when growth is seasonal, Pauly (1990) presented a method for constructing length-converted growth curves that allow ...
Strategy on International Fisheries Research: an update
Type: Journal Article
The Strategy on International Fisheries Research's activities on information and aquaculture in Asia, SubSaharan Africa, Latin and North America are presented.
Transgenic fish research
Type: Journal Article
The article features two most commonly techniques for gene transfer in fish, microinjection and electroporation.
Time recovery for exploited fish populations based on surplus yield models
Type: Journal Article
A new method to estimate the time recovery of exploited population based on M.B. Schaefer's theory is proposed. The parameters used as follows: current population size (alphaP sub( infinity )'), target population level ...
Concurrent rice-fish trials: comparing regular and border planting patterns
Type: Journal Article
Details are given of experiments conducted at the Freshwater Aquaculture Centre at Munoz, Philippines, to investigate the effects of varying the rice planting pattern on fish yields in integrated rice field aquaculture ...
Demand for fish in Sub-Saharan Africa: the past and the future
Type: Journal Article
The Sub-Saharan region of Africa accounted for only 5.5% of the world's demand for fish from 1989 to 1991, inspite of comprising 9% of the global population. This study was carried out to determine the future demand for ...
Changes in consumer tastes in the demand for fish and meat in Malaysia
Type: Journal Article
In this article the demand for fish and its substitute was estimated using a very flexible demand function, the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) developed by Deaton and Muelllbaeur (1980), incorporating the habit formation ...
Biodiversity research and ICLARM
Type: Journal Article
ICLARM's current and medium-term activities on biodiversity research in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture are summarized in this article.