The giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, is a major focus of aquaculture in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the globe. Over the last 30 years, culture of M. rosenbergii has increased exponentially as demand has risen both for domestic consumption and for international export...

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 ...

The characteristics and present status of brackishwater finfish and shrimp polyculture in West Bengal, India, are described. In this so-called 'bheri fishery', tidal water is retained inside large low-lying embanked areas which are mainly suitable for simultaneous farming of brackishwater finfish...

Four combinations of fish and prawn species were stocked in organic rice-fish systems to examine their growth performance, feeding habits, competitive interactions, and food-web structure. The species combinations were: (I) three fish species commonly stocked in rice-fish systems in the Lower...

Microbial communities in the intestine of Macrobrachium rosenbergii under six cultural patterns were evaluated by high-throughput pyrosequencing technology. The interactions between microbial and water environment were also analyzed by RDA (Redundancy analysis). The cultural patterns included prawn ...

Fish play an important role in the nutrition of people in India. Per capita availability of fish in the country is 9.5 kg with production at 5.8 million tonnes during 1999-2000. This production level makes India the second largest aquaculture producing country in the world, China is the leading ...

Cyclin B functions as a regulatory protein through association with its catalytic partner Cdc2 kinase forming M-phase promoting factor (MPF), which plays a central role in the meiotic maturation of oocyte. To gain insight into the molecular events, we here cloned a cyclin B cDNA from the ovary of...

The effects and commercial implications of aquatic plant addition, and variable prawn stocking density and supply of commercial aquafeed on water quality, prawn production and economic benefit, are investigated in a prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) + plant (Hydrilla verticillata) co-culture...

This study describes antibiotic use by small-scale freshwater aquaculture farmers in the upper Mekong Delta in southwestern Vietnam and the knowledge and practices surrounding the cause and prevention of aquaculture disease in that region. Forty five farmers were included in the study, of which 19...

Objective: To analyze the productive development performed by two aquatic species of recent introduction in Mexico, the giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) and tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), arguing their potential under mono- and poly-culture systems. Design/Methodology/Scope: The ...