Of all the corporate tasks facing government agencies and business enterprises, none is more challenging or has received more attention than those involving the management of capital. This is as true for fisheries as any other sector of the economy. However, a fishery is the mee…
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Tuna fisheries in the coastal states of the West Indian Ocean (WIO) have been at the centre of the social, economic and political development of the region. Their significance in creating employment, providing food, and generating revenue for the people in the region cannot be o…
Aquaculture is currently the world's fastest growing animal-producing sector. The Khorezm province in southwestern Uzbekistan has over 450 small lakes that could be developed for aquaculture, diversifying the local economy and providing rural communities with an additional sourc…
This work reports on one of the most extensive scientific collections of freshwater fishes yet made from Arabia. Fifteen species are recorded from the Peninsula. Five of these species are each represented by two subspecies. Skeletal studies are presented for the first time. Unus…
Acute and chronic toxicity tests for malathion, diazinon, and sherpa and for Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn, Ni, and Fe were conducted. Mortalities and LC50-96 hr values for Barilius vagra and Cyprinus carpio exposed to pesticides were variable. Long-term exposure to pesticides modified morphol…
This thesis focuses on the value and policy implications of traditional ecological knowledge of fishers for restoration and conservation of fish habitats in Bangladesh where ecosystems are highly altered. About one-third of Bangladesh consists of floodplains. Efforts to "control…
Attempts to use stable isotope carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) ratios to construct trophic positions and track mercury biomagnification in zooplankton and 13 fish species from a coastal food web of the Gulf of Oman illustrated some potential differences in this environment com…
Independent small-scale producers have played central roles in organizing and industrializing capitalist production of high-value seafoods in Asingi and the Nine Islands, two coastal villages in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The accomplishment of these ethnically Bugis entrepreneurs brea…
An illustrated ethogram describes the behavioral ecology and skin components of Abdopus aculeatus studied on Sulawesi, Indonesia and Queensland, Australia. These octopuses aggregated on intertidal reef flats and foraged for crustaceans during diurnal mid and low tides. Mating by…
Streptococcus agalactiae is the causative bacterium of streptococcosis and causes severe economic losses in wild and cultured fish and cattle, worldwide. In fish, infection can result in septicemia with hemorrhages on the body surface and in the external and internal organs. Str…
North American green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris ) are highly migratory, iteroparous, highly fecund, and demonstrate late sexual maturity and wide physiological tolerances to survive stochastic natural changes associated with the environments they utilize for reproduction an…
Lots of our food comes from farms--and so do fish! Some fish are caught in the wild, but we also eat fish that are raised on farms. Find out what fish farms look like, what fish farmers do, and how fish get from the farm to you. Discover the story of your food--where it was grow…
Aquaculture
by Fingerman, Milton, Nagabhushanam, Rachakonda
fromRecent advances in marine biotechnology
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Type: Book
In the past 20 years, fish cytogenetics has become an essential tool in fields as diverse as systematics and evolution, conservation, aquaculture and more recently, genomics. This book is organized in four sections (systematics and evolution; biodiversity conservation; stock ass…
