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Shrimp farming in the Asia-Pacific: environment and trade issues and regional cooperation
(Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 1995)
Production of farmed shrimp has grown at the phenomenal rate of 20-30% per year in the last two decades. The leading shrimp producers are in the Asia-Pacific region while the major markets are in Japan, the U.S.A. and ...
Daily amount of rotifers taken by a sea bass Lates calcarifer larvae
(Science and Technology Information Institute, 1990)
The amount of rotifers consumed by a single sea bass Lates calcarifer larva per day (R) was examined by both the direct and by the satiation-digestion methods. In the direct method, R is estimated by the number of rotifers ...
Agar from Gracilariopsis heteroclada from Panay Island, Philippines
(Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development, 1994)
This paper aims to determine the optimum NaOH pretreatment strength and duration and also the monthly variations in gel strength, agar yield and sulfate content of agar from Gracilariopsis heteroclada (Zhang et Xia) Zhang ...
Survival of larval milkfish, Chanos chanos, during changeover from endogenous to exogenous energy sources
(Asian Fisheries Society, 1990)
Survival of laboratory-reared larvae of milkfish, Chanos chanos , during transition from the prelarval to postlarval stages was examined in relation to the changeover of energy sources. The prelarval and early postlarval ...
The milkfish fry shortage in the Philippines and supply from fisheries and hatcheries
(University of Philippines in the Visayas, 1997)
This paper reviews the history and status of the milkfish fry fishery and hatchery and examines the issue of fry shortage in some detail. The fry fishery in the Philippines is a well developed industry that uses efficient ...
Studies on the chemical composition of a cyanophyte, Spirulina platensis
(Asian Fisheries Society, 1994)
The chemical composition of Spirulina platensis NIES-46 and K-2 strains grown under varios condition of hight intensity and temperature were determined. The dry weight, chla, carotenoid, carbohydrate, protein, and lipid ...
Series: PCAMRD Book Series; No. 10/1991
Aquaculture and the coastal environment
(Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development, 1991)
Philippine aquaculture production mostly comes from pond culture (brackishwater) constituting 47% of the total 1987 production of 560,970 t followed by mariculture of seaweeds, mollusks and finfishes. Fishponds have increased ...
Comparative strategies in community-based mangrove rehabilitation programs in the Philippines
(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation; Japanese Man and the Biosphere National Committee; Mangrove Ecosystem Research Centre, 1997)
Philippine Mangroves have decreased from around 500,000 ha at the turn of the century to 132,000 ha in 1990. Given the varied and important socioeconomic and ecological functions of mangroves including harvest of forestry ...
Spawning and larval development of a tropical abalone Haliotis asinina (Linne)
(Science and Technology Information Institute, 1995)
Dessication, thermal shock, ultraviolet-irradiated seawater, and hydrogen peroxide, singly or in combination, failed to induce the tropical abalone, Haliotis asinina to spawn viable number of eggs or sperm. However, natural ...
Hormone-induced spawning of cultured tropical finfishes
(IFREMER, 1990)
Commercially important tropical freshwater and marine finfishes are commonly spawned with pituitary homogenate, human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) and semi-purified fish gonadotropins. These preparations are often administered ...