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Mud crab pond and pen culture
(University of the Philippines Aquaculture Society, Inc, 2001)
Depuration of molluscs
(Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development; Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, 1987)
The experimental system put up at SEAFDEC [Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center; Philippines] consisted of six rectangular (96 x 196 x 42 cm) fiberglass-coated tanks made of marine plywood. It can depurate about ...
Fisheries biology of milkfish (Chanos chanos Forskal)
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, South Pacific Aquaculture Development Project, 1990)
Milkfish (Chanos chanos Forskal) is one of the most important food fish species in the world. In Indonesia, Taiwan and the Philippines, more than a quarter of a million tonnes of milkfish are harvested annually in brackish ...
Heterogeneity in Philippine milkfish populations
(Asian Fisheries Society, 1990)
Twelve milkfish (Chanos chanos ) populations from 6 coastal areas in the Philippines, collected at the fry stage and reared until fingerling size, were analysed for electrophoretic variation at 28 presumptive loci. Seven ...
Acute toxicity of mercury to Oreochromis niloticus fingerlings
(SEAMEO BIOTROP, 1991)
Fingerlings of Oreochromis niloticus were exposed to the following mercury (as HgCl<sub>2</sub>) concentrations: 0.005, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05 and 0.06 mg l<sup>-1</sup> Hg of water. Hyperactivity and erratic swimming ...
A strategy for sustainable mariculture
(Malacca Straits Research and Development Centre (MASDEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia, 2002)
From merely growing shellfish and macroalgae along the freinges of the sea, man is naw growing marine fish in cages thus expanding the range of mariculture. While the farming of shellfish may have its own set of problems ...
Shrimp health research in the Asia-Pacific: present status and future directives
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1996)
Shrimp harvests from intensive aquaculture have recently declined in areas which have been productive for many years. Because the most convenient, although not necessarily factual, explanation for these crop failures has ...
Series: NACA Environment and Aquaculture Development Series No. 3
Gracilaria studies at SEAFDEC/AQD
(Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific, 1996)
Research in seaweed from 1988–1994 focused on the agar producing Gracilaria. Studies in the following areas were also conducted: inventory of the seaweed resources; production ecology; farming systems; and agar characterisation. ...
Reproductive performance of pond-sourced Scylla serrata fed various broodstock diets
(Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 1999)
Feeding experiments were conducted to determine the effect of diet on reproduction of pond-sourced unablated and ablated Scylla serrrata broodstock. Broodstock were fed either natural food (T1) consisting of mussel, squid, ...
Restocking of windowpane shell, Placuna placenta in a depleted bed off Tigbauan, Iloilo, the Philippines
(Phuket Marine Biological Center, 2000)
The Tigbauan coast, Iloilo, the Philippines, has been depleted of the natural population of the windowpane shell, Placuna placenta Linnaeus, 1758, since the early 1980's. To support the declining P. placenta industry of ...