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Nutrient cycles: Nutrient dynamics in culture ponds.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
The general over-development of aquaculture had profound disturbance on the surrounding ecosystem, affecting, not only fisheries, but aquaculture itself through release of effluent loaded with nutrients into open waters ...
Environment-friendly schemes in intensive shrimp farming.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
International environmental pressure groups call for shrimp importing countries to impose a trade embargo against farmed shrimps produced in a manner considered deleterious to the environment. In fact, Europe had banned ...
The use of mangroves for aquaculture: Philippines
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
According to the National Forest Resource Inventory (NFRI), the estimated remaining area of mangrove forests in the Philippines in 1988 is 139,100 ha (DENR 1994). Of the total 139,100 ha mangrove forests, 78,593 ha are ...
Regional technical consultation on the aquaculture of Penaeus vannamei and other exotic shrimps in Southeast Asia.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2005)
Promotion of mangrove-friendly shrimp aquaculture in Southeast Asia
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
This publication comprises two major parts : Report on the Regional Seminar-Workshop on Mangrove-Friendly Shrimp Aquaculture, Bangkok, Thailand, 24-27 June 2003 ; Report on the Mangrove Friendly Shrimp Culture Project: ...
Capacity of mangroves to process shrimp pond effluents.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Shrimp culture has been criticized for causing mangrove loss and discharging effluents laden with chemicals, organic matter and nutrients into waterways. Hence the SEAFDEC Council mandated SEAFDEC/AQD to undertake studies ...
Recent developments in the genetic improvement of the giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium sp.)
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2007)
This publication contains results from the research project “Development of Genetically Improved Strain of Macrobrachium” covered by the Program on the Promotion of Sustainable Aquaculture in the ASEAN Region (previously ...
Genetic characterization, domestication and improvement of Macrobrachium rosenbergii in the Philippines
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2007)
Extensive studies in the Philippines and in adjacent countries revealed that 528 caridean prawn species are found in this region alone (Chan, 1998). Of all the known species, the giant freshwater prawn is considered the ...
Giant freshwater prawn farming in the Philippines
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2007)
Freshwater prawn thrives in inland waters like rivers, lakes, swamps, irrigation canals, estuaries and even in rivers upstream. A recent survey in Luzon Island, Philippines identified 12 species of freshwater prawn found ...
Freshwater prawn research at SEAFDEC/AQD
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2007)
The Philippines lags behind Thailand and Indonesia as far as research and commercial production of the freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium sp., are concerned. Although studies on Macrobrachium sp. (or ulang as it is locally ...