Aqua Farm News: Recent submissions

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    • Glucans and disease resistance 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (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... 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (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 ...

    • Using bacteria to fight bacteria 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (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 ...

    • Go slow, check your technology 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (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 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (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 ...

    • Quo vadis, shrimp? 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (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 ...

    • CRM in the Philippines: Lessons learned 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
      Philippine coastal communities can become capable fishery resource managers and that their management practices can become largely self-sustaining if the project approach focuses on assisting fishermen to learn how to help ...

    • What needs to be done?: Guide in mangrove reforestation 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
      The article presents a two-part guideline in mangrove reforestation. The first part is zonation, which is the process of determining what species are particularly suited to plant in a particular site. While, plantation ...

    • Mangroves to aquaculture 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
      The paper discusses the recommended strategies regarding the further conversion of mangrove forests to fishponds and the management of existing fishponds for the culture of various aquatic species based on economic feasibility ...

    • Shrimp culture and the environment 

      ผู้แต่งที่ไม่รู้จัก (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
      The paper discusses the impacts of shrimp culture to the environment in some countries in Asia. Specifically, it highlights the land requirements suitable for shrimp farming and the impacts of shrimp culture on mangroves. ...

    • Shrimp pond culture in the Philippines 

      Aldon, Eva T.; Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
      The document reviews and evaluates the development of shrimp culture in the Philippines. It also discusses the ecological and socioeconomic effects of shrimp culture industry in the country.

    • Beginnings: SEAFDEC/AQD, CFRM, and Malalison Island 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department (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.

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 10(01) January - February 1992 

      Castaños, Milagros T. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1992)
      This issue takes a look first at the economics of the world trade of ornamental fish. Virtually, no complete statistics are known to have been compiled on world trade in tropical aquarium fish other than the assessment ...

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 14(06) November - December 1996 

      Aldon, Eva T. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 14(4-5) July - October 1996 

      Castaños, Milagros T.; Aldon, Eva (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
      This issue presents the shrimp production trends in Asia-Pacific, along with notes on the diseases devastating the industry and interviews with shrimp farmers in the Philippines. The options of shrimp farmers -- which are ...

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 14(02-03) March - June 1996 

      ผู้แต่งที่ไม่รู้จัก (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1996)
      This issue takes a close look at one fishing village working hard to manage its resources by itself. There are interviews with the village head or Barangay Captain, women leaders, a schoolkid, and a primary grade teacher. ...

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 13(06) November - December 1995 

      Castaños, Milagros T. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1995)
      In this issue, traditional culture is discussed along with AQD's modifications. A summary of AQD's research on the natural life history of milkfish is presented as well as the issue on fry shortage. This issue also takes ...

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 11(02) March - April 1993 

      Castaños, Milagros T. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1993)
      The milkfish Chanos chanos is a food of the common tao (man) and one of the most important fishes farmed in the Philippines. It is also a cultural symbol in the country, a national fish no less. To develop the milkfish ...

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 09(06) November - December 1991 

      ผู้แต่งที่ไม่รู้จัก (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1991)

    • Aqua Farm News Volume 12(04) July - August 1994 

      Castaños, Milagros T. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1994)
      In this issue, we take a look at the hatchery technology for tiger shrimp, milkfish, and sea bass developed by AQD; some improvements in hatchery operations; the new trends in disease control; fry quality criteria; and the ...