Regional Technical Consultation on the Aquaculture of Penaeus vannamei and other Exotic Shrimps in Southeast Asia

 
 

Regional Technical Consultation on the Aquaculture of P. vannamei and Other Exotic Shrimps in Southeast Asia, Manila, Philippines, 1-2 March 2005.

The Workshop was funded by SUMA, a DANIDA project based on Vietnam and was held at Hanoi, Vietnam. Experts from Ecuador, Thailand and China, as well as representatives form Malaysia and Indonesia reported on the status of P. vannamei farming in their respective countries. Experts also presented papers on the health status and on the social and economic aspects of exotic shrimp culture in Asia. About 100 participants from Vietnam's Ministry of Fisheries, NAFIQAVED and the private sector attended the workshop.

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  • Regional technical consultation on the aquaculture of Penaeus vannamei and other exotic shrimps in Southeast Asia. 

    Sult, VirgiliaT.; Aldon. Ma. Eva T.; Tendencia, Isidro T.; Ortiz, Anna Maria Josefa; Alayon, Stephen B.; Ledesma, Arvee S. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)

  • Status of aquaculture of Penaeus vannamei in China. 

    Weimin, Miao (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    China is a country with longest history of aquaculture in the world. Comparatively, shrimp culture is a relatively new industry in China. The earliest national production figure of cultured shrimp was 79 metric tons in ...

  • Shrimp culture in Vietnam. 

    Tien, Vu Dzung; Trieu, Vuvan (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)

  • Overview of existing shrimp culture industry and development potential for culture of P. vannamei in Myanmar. 

    Thame, Minn; Aye, Than Than (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    Shrimp culture in the form of traditional method commenced in Myanmar in 1970s in the western coastal areas. The culture system was trap and hold method. Natural post-larvae of Penaeus monodon were trapped into the ponds ...

  • Status of P. vannamei aquaculture in the Philippines. 

    Rosario, Westly R.; Lopez, Nelson A. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    Shrimp industry in the Philippines refers only to P. monodon, the only penaeid species being exported abroad. It is grown almost all over the country from Northern Luzon to Southernmost part of Mindanao. The culture of ...

  • Aquaculture of white shrimp Penaeus vannamei in Thailand. 

    Tookwinas, Siri; Chiyakum, Kanit; Somsueb, Sutheewat (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    Aquaculture production in Thailand has been practiced for a long time. Thailand has a huge flood plain, long riverine stretches, natural lakes, reservoirs and brackish-water areas along the coastline. On the Gulf of Thailand ...

  • The culture of Penaeus vannamei and other exotic shrimps in Singapore. 

    Choi, Pang Kong; Serena, Cho Yin Ling (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    This paper describes the overview of shrimp culture industry and the historical production of Penaeus monodon, P. merguiensis and the P. vannamei. The production of shrimp reduced from 115 metric tonnes in 2002 to 46 metric ...

  • Status of shrimp farming in Cambodia. 

    Hav, Viseth; Leap, Haing (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    In the South-Western part of the country, Cambodia has 435 km coastline in the Gulf of Thailand, which stretches between the Vietnamese borders in the South to the Thai border in the West. The fisheries sector plays a ...

  • Shrimp farming in Malaysia 

    bin Hashim, Mazuki; Kathamuthu, Subramanian (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    Malaysia has a long coastline of 4,055 kilometers (km), of which 1,640 km is in Peninsular Malaysia and 2,415 km is in the state of Sabah and Sarawak. With the declaration of the 200 miles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), ...

  • The present status of Penaeus vannamei and other exotic shrimp culture in Indonesia. 

    Budhiman, Agus A.; Paryanti, Tatie Sri; Sunaryanto, Anto (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
    Shrimp culture is playing an important role in the contribution of foreign exchange earnings in Indonesia. However, for two decades, particularly in 1985 to 1994 the production of shrimp (P. monodon) had drastically decreased ...

  • Foreword. 

    Platon, Rolando R. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)