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Series: Aquaculture extension manual; No. 35
Best management practices for a mangrove-friendly shrimp farming
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center; Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 2002)
This 50-page manual puts together the best practices that SEAFDEC/AQD has developed with the Department of Fisheries in Thailand. These practices include the use of biomanipulators and greenwater system, the use of settling ...
Malaysia: Mangrove-friendly aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
The paper describes some mangrove-friendly aquaculture activities that are practiced in Malaysia. Among these are the culture of cockle and oyster, semi-intensive culture of tiger prawn, fish cage culture, and pen culture ...
Abalone seed production and culture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Details the research conducted at AQD for the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina. AQD has developed the rudiments of a hatchery protocol.
The technology for milkfish hatchery in Indonesia
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2001)
The culture of milkfish (Chanos chanos), which is the oldest fish cultured in Indonesia, has spread to almost all the provinces in the country. In order to answer the demand of milkfish fry, without decreasing production ...
Series: Aquaculture extension manual; No. 29
Grouper culture in floating net cages
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
The manual describes the culture of groupers (Epinephelus) in floating cages, providing a farming option for grouper growers and also a production alternative to the farmed species being done today, such as shrimp, milkfish ...
Series: Aquaculture extension manual; No. 30
Net cage culture of tilapia in dams and small farm reservoirs
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
The manual describes the net cage of tilapia in dams and small farm reservoirs, which has been found to be a low-cost yet high-income earning farm activity and offers an excellent option as an alternative livelihood for ...
Establishing a mangrove nursery
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Mangroves play an important role in creating habitats for a diverse community of organisms ranging from bacteria and fungi to fishes and mammals. They grow in intertidal flats, estuaries and offshore islands. In the ...
Verification of semi-intensive shrimp culture techniques: Vietnam.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Vietnam has about 260,000 ha devoted for shrimp culture in early 1999. The total production was estimated at about 80,000 tons in 2000, so that productivity was about 300 kg/ha only. In 1990–1997, vast areas of mangroves ...
Mud crab hatchery and nursery operations
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2003)
A brief account is given of mud crab (Scylla spp) farming activities in the Philippines. The expanding market for mud crab is the cause of intensified collection of wild juveniles. To counter the threat to wild population ...
Series: Aquaculture extension manual; No. 37
Giant clam hatchery, ocean nursery and stock enhancement
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2007)
This manual is meant to serve as a guide to the culture of giant clams (Bivalvia, Subfamily Tridacninae). The first part focuses on hatchery methods. The second part is about the ocean nursery. The first two sections refer ...