This book has as its nucleus a report prepared for the American Institute of Biological Sciences, under contract with the U.S. President's Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development, but the report has been rewritten and supplemented with much new information. The authors' aim is to...

The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) and the Ecological Stoichiometry Theory (EST) are central and complementary in the consumer-driven recycling conceptual basis. The understanding of physiological processes of organisms is essential to explore and predict nutrient recycling behavior, and to...

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

Gynogenesis is an established technique to generate all female type offspring and this technique has been successfully induced diploid gynogens progeny in aquatic animals of fishes and crustaceans. Monosex culture of all female shrimp and fishes were selected attribute to all female type offspring...

This article describes the history, development, business management, production factors, yields, marketing, needs, recommendations and future of aquaculture in Asia and the rest of the world are described.

Best practice approaches used in the live transport of commercial crustacean species groups are reviewed and the physiological responses to handling practices are described. Codes of practice aimed at providing technological guidelines in handling and transportation of live prawns, lobsters, crabs...

Paper is a multidisciplinary assessment of the state of aquaculture in USA. Findings and recommendations are summarized under the headings of the 4 main chapters. From work of the 1st chapter, on production systems, it was concluded that present technology of production was adequate for profitable...

Domestication of new candidate species remains a long and difficult process often resulting in unfruitful attempts. Early steps in most domestication programmes often consider species as a unity, disregarding a part of the biodiversity: the wild intraspecific geographic differentiation. Yet, this...