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...

This book covers all aspects of subsistence and commercial aquaculture practiced around the world and would be of use to aquaculture students and those involved in the aquaculture industry and fish farms, research institutions, teaching, and aquaculture equipment and feed suppliers. The new...

This book "Recent advances and new species in aquaculture" is a comprehensive, up-to-date text that delivers the latest must-have information on species new to aquaculture and documents the most important technological innovations of the past decade. Every aspect of the growing field has been...

The status of organic aquaculture which presents production (cultivation) aquatic species (fish, crustaceans, molluscs, sea plants etc.) and guarantees high quality and safety of the product in accordance with specific principles is evaluated on the base of a large amount of statistical data. The...

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...

The lake and pond cultures of Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) are two main farming modes with high commercial benefits in the Changjiang River basin. Unfortunately, recapture rates of the released crabs are often considerably lower mainly due to the predation of predacious fish. In order...

This article discusses freshwater, paddyfield, brackish water and marine water aquaculture production in Indonesia with a particular focus on shrimp farming. Aquaculture production in Indonesia reached 2.16 million mt in 2005. The total volume of aquaculture production has been increasing by about ...

A nationwide field survey in 2018 and field experiments in 2012-18 were conducted in China, to analyze the effects of rice-fish system (RFS) on rice and fish yields and soil fertility. The survey included 4 types of RFSs [[]rice-carp, rice-crab, rice-crayfish and rice-turtle (soft-shelled turtle)], ...

The history and general overview of aquaculture production in Korea was presented highlighting its farming systems and cultured systems, mariculture, freshwater aquaculture, demand and trade of its aquaculture products, consumer trends, preferences and buying patterns, import-export, constraints to ...