Parameters and related statistics of the length-weight relationship of the form W=aL super(b) are presented for 72 species of fish caught in the area of the Itaipu Reservoir in Parana, Brazil. The b values varied between ...

A number of studies have highlighted the promising growth of Egyptian tilapia aquaculture and the role of genetically improved strains in this development, such as the Abbassa Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, Linneaus, ...

WorldFish manages multiple family-based genetic improvement programs for tilapia and carp species (Charo-Karisa et al., 2020; Hamilton et al., 2019a; Hamilton et al., 2019b; Hamilton et al., 2021; Hamzah et al., 2014). ...

KULIMA is a 6-year project whose goal is to promote sustainable agricultural growth to increase incomes, employment, and food security in Malawi in the context of a changing climate. Within the KULIMA Action, the CGIAR ...

Over the past eight years my colleagues and I have been involved in a major project to make key information on fishes available to users, especially in developing countries. There are about 25 000 species of fishes in the ...

The apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata, was imported into Japan and cultured extensively for food in the early 1980s. Not long after, escaped or discarded snails became feral and started feeding on rice seedlings and other ...

Silver barb (Pontius gonionotus) is widely distributed in Southeast Asia. In addition to Vietnam, the species is found in Thailand, Cambodia, Lao, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh etc. In Vietnam, the species is abundantly ...

USAID_Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture and Nutrition Activity_Quarterly Progress Report: October – December 2018

The giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) is cultured widely around the world but little is known about the levels and patterns of genetic diversity in either wild or cultured stocks. Studies have suggested ...

A simple running water method of catfish (Clarias gariepinus) fingerling production in ponds in Northern Cameroon is outlined.