Productivity

Good management practices (GMPs) to reduce environmental impacts and improve efficiency of shrimp aquaculture in Latin America

Abstract: A list of practices that can be used to improve the efficiency and reduce the negative environmental impacts of shrimp farming is presented. The practices […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): Claude E. Boyd; Maria C. Haws
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Estimation of carrying capacity for shrimp aquaculture in the eastern estuaries of the Gulf of Fonseca

Abstract: An intensive data collection and modeling study has been underway for the past several years addressing two of the channel estuaries draining into the Gulf […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): George H. Ward; Bartholomew W. Green; David R. Teichert-Coddington
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Risk analysis of shrimp farming in Honduras

Abstract: Current realities (disease issues, environmental concerns, unstable market) are encouraging shrimp farmers world-wide to review traditional management strategies and look for tools that help optimize […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): D. Valderrama; C.R. Engle
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Masculinization of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) by immersion in synthetic androgens: timing and efficacy

Abstract: A variety of methods have been developed for producing single-sex populations of tilapia; Multiple immersions during the critical period of sensitivity consistently achieved greater than […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): Wilfrido M. Contreras-Sanchez; Martin S. Fitzpatrick; Gabriel Marquez-Couturier; Carl B. Schreck
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Fate of the masculinization agent methyltestosterone in the pond environment

Abstract: Use of all-male tilapia populations prevents unwanted reproduction and produces the sex with the greatest growth potential. One common method for producing all-male populations is […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): Martin S. Fitzpatrick; Wilfrido M. Contreras-Sanchez; Ruth H. Milston; Carl B. Schreck
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Sistemas de produccion de tilapia en Honduras (Tilapia production systems in Honduras)

Abstract: Following a period of rapid expansion in the early 1990s, tilapia farming in Honduras continues to be a growing industry. This survey of management systems […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): Bartholomew W. Green
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Evaluation of integrated tilapia culture by resource limited farmers in Panama and Guatemala

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the current status of tilapia pond projects initiated in the 1980s by the governments of Panama and […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): Leonard L. Lovshin; Norman B. Schwartz
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Efecto del recambio de agua en la produccion semi-intensiva de Penaeus vannamei (Effect of water exchange on semi-intensive production of Penaeus vannamei)

Abstract: Daily water exchange at 10% of pond volume is common practice in semi-intensive shrimp culture in Central America. Rationales for water exchange are to improve […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): Bartholomew W. Green; David R. Teichert-Coddington; Claude E. Boyd; John M. Wigglesworth; Hector Corrales; Delia Martinez; Eneida Ramirez
  • Type of Document: Conference Proceeding or Document

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Modeling growth of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in a cage-cum-pond integrated culture system

Abstract: A bioenergetics model was developed to simulate growth of both caged and open-pond Nile tilapia in a cage-cum-pond integrated culture system. The model incorporated six […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): Yang Yi
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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Effects of feeding pelleted versus non-pelleted defatted rice bran on Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus production and water quality in ponds

Abstract: Effects of pelleted versus non-pelleted defatted rice bran on fish production and water quality were evaluated at the Aquaculture Research Station, University of Arkansas at […]

  • Date of Publication: 1999
  • Author(s): P. Perschbacher; R. Lochmann
  • Type of Document: Scholarly Article

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