Over the years, aquaculture has developed as one of the fastest growing food production sectors in Nepal. However, local fish supplies have been extremely inadequate to meet the ever increasing demand in the country. Nepal ...

This policy working paper was prepared to serve as a background document for the policy stakeholder consultation. The paper examines the potential impacts of agribusiness-focused aquaculture and outlines an appropriate policyand ...

This study was carried out in order to understand the technical and economic characteristics of different Egyptian Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) hatchery systems. Hatchery operators at fifty tilapia hatcheries in ...

The WorldFish Center (formerly known as ICLARM - the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management) was established in 1977 and since the mid 1980s has conducted research on rice-fish systems which are an ...

A study was conducted in 54 wetlands of 13 districts of Assam, India to evaluate the causes of fish depletion. Twenty-two variables were considered for the study. Seven factors were extracted through factor analysis ...

This article explains the concept of a "nutrition-sensitive approach" to aquaculture and fisheries and provides insights into the ways in which this approach, if widely applied, could create large impacts on the nutritional ...

Genetic improvement programs can increase the productivity of cultured aquatic species. Their rigorous design requires knowledge about parameters such as herit-ability and correlations among the traits under selection. ...

For rural farmer households in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar, fish is the cheapest source of animal protein in their diet. However, fish stocks are declining due to illegal fishing practices, population growth, and unregulated ...

The growth parameters (L sub( infinity ), K, t sub(0)), total mortality and length-weight relationships of 23 speciesof fishes studied during a UNESCO-sponsored study of the fish populations of the Gulf of Aden, in the mid-1980s, ...

Empirical relationships are presented to estimate in fishes, asymptotic length from maximum observed length (L_max), length at first maturity (L_m) from L, life span (tmax) from age at first maturity ...