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Capacity of mangroves to process shrimp pond effluents.
Primavera, Jurgenne 
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
(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 ...
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: ...
Integrated physical and biological technologies for water recycling in shrimp farms.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Environment-friendly shrimp culture system has been an issue for improving shrimp farming and making it sustainable. In the past decade, Thailand adopted the open shrimp culture system, which consumed a lot of coastal and ...
Use of mangroves for aquaculture: Myanmar.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Aquaculture has only started to develop rapidly in the past few decades, due to better knowledge of culture species, improved methodologies and techniques in breeding, nutrition and increasing demand for food fish of ...
Verification of semi-intensive shrimp culture techniques: Vietnam.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Vietnam has about 260,000 ha devoted for shrimp culture in early 1999. The total production was estimated at about 80,000 tons in 2000, so that productivity was about 300 kg/ha only. In 1990–1997, vast areas of mangroves ...
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 ...
Mitigation measures of effluents from shrimp farms on mangrove and coastal resources.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
More than 80 % of shrimp production of Phuket comes from small-scale intensive farms. Most of shrimp farms use direct supply of seawater from the open sea and released effluents to canals. The effect of the unlimited ...
Use of mangroves for aquaculture: Vietnam.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Vietnam has a coastal line of 3600 km with a large wetland (tidal area) area of 600,000 ha (according to the survey statistics of the Institute of Planning and Economics under the Ministry of Fisheries), in which mangrove ...
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 ...
The use of mangroves for aquaculture: Cambodia.
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Natural conditions of the coastal and ecosystems of Cambodia have made this country rich of biodiversity resources. Cambodia’s 435 km coastline is covered with large estuaries with about 85,100 ha of mangrove forests (Nelson ...