Impact of the introduction of apple snails and their control in Japan

cg.contributor.affiliationKyusu National Agricultural Experiment Station
cg.coverage.countryJapan
cg.coverage.regionEastern Asia
cg.description.themeAquacultureen_US
cg.identifier.statusOpen access
cg.identifier.worldfish2177
cg.subject.agrovocMollusca
cg.subject.agrovocrice
cg.subject.agrovocshellfish
dc.creatorYusa, Y.
dc.creatorWada, T.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-25T16:41:16Z
dc.date.available2019-01-25T16:41:16Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractThe 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 aquatic plants. This was especially noted in Kyushu in southern Japan. Snails are still proliferating, but the area of damaged rice is not increasing as fast, mainly because of the success of snail control. Currently, the most effective methods of avoiding damage to rice are keeping water shallow, transplanting older seedlings and, in some cases, using molluscicides or repellents. However, these methods have almost no effect on damage by snail feeding when rice fields are flooded. The apple snail is believed to be the most important obstacle to the spread of direct-sowing culture of rice in Kyushu. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has launched a national project for the integrated management of the snail under direct sowing culture of rice in Kyushu. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has launched a national project for the integrated management of the snail under direct-sowing rice culture. Some recent results from this project are briefly reviewed in this paper.
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dc.identifier.citationNAGA 22 (3): 9-13
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/2479
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWorldFish
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.sourceNAGA
dc.titleImpact of the introduction of apple snails and their control in Japan
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.bibliographicCitationYusa, Y.; Wada, T. (1999). Impact of the introduction of apple snails and their control in Japan. NAGA 22 (3): 9-13

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