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Environmental and other non-infectious diseases
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2001)
The chapter presents some of the environmental non-infectious diseases of aquatic animals. Non-infectious diseases are caused by adverse environmental conditions, nutritional disorders, or genetic defects. While they can ...
Impacts of brackishwater pond culture on the mangrove ecosystem
(Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department, 2000)
This paper aims to describe Southeast Asian mangroves, the impacts of brackishwater pond culture on these ecosystems, and lessons from the region for the development of aquaculture in Malaysia.
Conceptual framework for sustainable aquaculture and coastal resources management: Approach to the adoption of mangrove-friendly aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Aqua-mangrove integrated farming: Shrimp and mud crab culture in coastal and inland tidal flats with existing reforested or natural growth of mangroves
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Throughout the tropics, mangroves are being destroyed at an increasing rate for the development of aquaculture ponds. In the Philippines, for instance, mangroves were about 400,000 to 500,000 ha in 1918 but were reduced ...
Marine-fish mangrove aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Aquaculture has often been blamed by environmental lobby groups as one of the main causes of mangrove destruction. In the Philippines, large areas of mangroves were converted through the years into fish and shrimp ponds.
There ...
Giant freshwater prawn culture in Indonesia
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2007)
Indonesia is one of the countries in Asia with rich biodiversity, particularly in terms of the number of endemic freshwater aquatic organisms. Numerous indigenous freshwater fish species are found in Sumatera (30 spp.), ...
Asking good questions
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2010)
Originally published in the Philippine Star on 5 February 2009. Edited and reprinted with permission.
Philippine science as world science: The case of milkfish reproduction
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2010)
Originally published in the Philippine Star on 10 January 2008. Edited and reprinted with permission.
Hatchery and pond culture of Macrobrachium rosenbergii in northern Mindanao
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2007)
The history of M. rosenbergii hatchery operations in Northern Mindanao can be traced from minor activities in different locations by several institutions. Earlier attempts to produce freshwater prawn postlarvae in hatcheries ...
Wise-use technologies in mangrove-friendly aquaculture: Vietnam experience
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
This report refers to the status of aquaculture technologies in coastal areas in general. Some mangrove-friendly aquaculture systems in Vietnam are also discussed including several measures to develop aquaculture in mangroves ...