The indigenous oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense) is distributed throughout China and is farmed on a large scale. Adverse selection and inbreeding are common problems in M. nipponense farming; large-sized prawns were sold to the market for high prices, leaving the remaining small ...

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction; Cultured species; The Chinese mitten crab; Freshwater prawns; Freshwater crayfish; Mud crabs; Spiny lobsters.

Traditionally, Giant mud crab had been considered to be the dominant species of mud crab cultured in China, but recent taxonomic revisions have suggested that Scylla paramamosain is the dominant. Mud crab growth can be roughly divided into five stages: embryonic stage, zoea, megalopa, juvenile crab ...

Comparisons of production, water and energy efficiencies of aquaculture versus an array of fisheries and terrestrial agriculture systems show that nonfed aquaculture (e.g. shellfish, seaweeds) is among the world's most efficient mass producer of plant and animal proteins. Various fed aquaculture...

The current status of microalgae cultivation and use in aquaculture, as well as the future trends are presented in this paper. A review of the production systems of microalgae for aquaculture is given. The role of microalgae in feeding of filtering molluscs, shrimp and fish are discussed. Other...

This chapter describes the transformation of the ancient fish farming experience in rice fields to the modern rice-field aquaculture practices in China. Evolutionary development of integrated rice-field aquaculture in China can be divided into three phases: the slow maintenance phase, the rapid...

Farmed fish, crustaceans and mollusks provide an increasing fraction of the human food supply, supplementing and substituting the overfished or declining wild-catch fisheries, and are of major economic importance in many countries. As in the case of terrestrial agriculture, bringing together large...

Globally, aquaculture continues to grow in importance. Equally important is the need to intensify all forms of modern agriculture, in particular, aquaculture. Internationally, aquaculture poses a potential threat to public freshwater and saline water resources. Aquaculture systems and practices are ...