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Intensive prawn farming in the Philippines: ecological, social, and economic implications
(Springer Verlag, 1991)
The benefits of intensive farming of the giant tiger prawn Penaeus monodon in the Philippines are discussed in relation to the environmental costs. Ecological effects include mangrove conversion into ponds; use of antibiotics ...
Series: Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science; 23
Prawn/shrimp culture industry in the Philippines
(Elsevier, 1992)
The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,100 islands with 17,460 km of coastline, including mangrove forests which covered about 450,000 ha in the 1920s. Coastal aquaculture began a few centuries ago when earthen ...
The environmental effects of aquaculture with emphasis on the intensive prawn farming in the Philippines.
(The Economic Society of Thailand, 1993)
Growth and external reproductive parameters in pond-reared Penaeus monodon
(Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, 1994)
Pond-reared Penaeus monodon males and females were sampled regularly over a 4 month period of length and weight measurments to the body and external reproductive organs; joining of the petasmata and the presence of sperm ...
A survey of chemical and biological products used in intensive prawn farms in the Philippines
(Elsevier, 1993)
With attractive prawn export prices and the availability of hatchery fry and commercial feeds, Philippine aquaculture has experienced a shift from milkfish to prawn Penaeus monodon and an intensification from traditional ...