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Quo vadis, shrimp?
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper discusses the shrimp culture practices of Thailand, the top producing country of cultured shrimp. These shrimp culture techniques include the use of reservoirs for better waste management, utilization of undiluted ...
Beginnings: SEAFDEC/AQD, CFRM, and Malalison Island
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper documents the community fishery resources management activities of Southeast Asian Fisheries
Development Center, Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) in Malalison Island, Antique, Philippines.
Using bacteria to fight bacteria
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper discusses about probiotics and its possible use in shrimp aquaculture. The paper also provides information on how the probiotics work and presents the preliminary results of the field tests conducted by Southeast ...
Glucans and disease resistance
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper presents the usefulness of beta-glucans as immunostimulants for strengthening the non-specific defense system of a wide range of animals. In Taiwan, researchers tested the effects of beta-glucans on the vibriosis ...
The trouble with antibiotics and pesticides is...
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper discusses the output of the meeting on the use of chemicals in aquaculture in Asia. The effects of chemical use on cultured stocks in the farm, the immediate environment through discharges and effluents, surrounding ...
Grouper, mudcrab and company
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper discusses aquaculture practices on the three other high-value commodities which can be cultured as an alternative to shrimp. These species are grouper, mud crab and sea bass, it also discusses milkfish aquaculture ...
A shrimp cooperative in action
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper presents the success story of the Bacolod, Negros Occidental based shrimp cooperative, the Negros Prawn Producers’ Marketing Cooperative, Inc. (NPPMCI) in integrating prawn production and marketing, and ...
What's up on carp?
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
Bighead carp is preferred among other species for culture because of its fast growth and high survival rate. Pen and cage culture of carps in Laguna de Bay is sustained by the availability of juveniles as a result of ...
Go slow, check your technology
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper presents the outlooks and experiences of veteran shrimp farmers from Negros, west central Philippines after its collapse in the late 1980s due to the luminous bacteria.
Pathogens after shrimp: A rogue's gallery of the industry's four most destructive adversaries
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
The paper discusses the four most destructive shrimp pathogens, such as MBV, the monodon baculovisrus, IHHNV, the infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus, Vibrio harveyi, the luminous bacteria, and WSBV, the ...