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Japan: Mangrove areas and their utilization
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Although Japan has large-scale aquaculture, there is no aquaculture development in mangrove areas because the total area is small (553 ha) and strictly protected. Mangroves are preserved in comparatively good condition. ...
Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture : Proceedings of the Workshop on Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture organized by the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department, January 11-15, 1999, Iloilo City, Philippines
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
The proceedings have three review papers on the mangroves of Southeast Asia, silvofisheries, and Indonesia's integrated mangrove forest and aquaculture systems. The rest of the papers, all on mangrove-friendly aquaculture ...
Mangroves of Southeast Asia
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
This paper provides an introduction to Southeast Asian mangroves covering taxonomy, distribution and ecological factors; discusses mangrove goods and services and their valuation; and recommends guidelines for mangrove ...
SEAFDEC/AQD experience in mangrove-friendly aquaculture training and extension
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) is mandated to develop human resources and disseminate and exchange information in aquaculture. Towards this direction, AQD’s recent thrusts are focused on the verification, ...
Myanmar: Mangrove-friendly aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Myanmar has extensive mangrove forests in Ayeyarwady Delta, Rakhine, and Tanintharyi, but these have been drastically reduced due to paddy rice cultivation. Today, only 382,032 ha remain.
Myanmar is only now starting ...
Cambodia: Mangrove-friendly aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Cambodia has 435 km of coastline with 85,000 ha of mangrove forest. A big part of the mangrove area is in Koh Kong province (63,700) where intensive shrimp culture activity is also concentrated. Shrimp (Penaeus monodon) ...
Mangrove-associated mollusc research at SEAFDEC/AQD
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Mollusc research at the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center started in 1975 and focused on two commercially important mangrove-associated bivalves, the slipper-shaped oyster (Crassostrea ...
Philippines: Mangrove-friendly aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2000)
Mangrove areas in the Philippines were once considered vast tracts of wasteland that can be developed into other land uses. The economic "advantages" associated with such exploitation were considered socially "valuable" ...