Inclusion of tilapia as a diversification strategy for penaeid shrimp culture

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Author(s):
Bartholomew W. Green

Type of Document:
Conference Proceeding or Document

 

Publisher/Journal:
IV Symposium on Aquaculture in Central America: Focusing on Shrimp and Tilapia

Date of Publication:
4/1/1997

Place of Publication:
Not Available

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Abstract: The potential for tilapia culture in brackish water shrimp ponds is evaluated. Aquaculturally important tilapia are the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), blue tilapia (O. aureus), red tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) and, to a lesser extent, Mozambique tilapia (O. mossambicus). Nile and blue tilapia can tolerate salinities as high as 36

Additional Bibliographic Information

Green, B.W., 1997. Inclusion of tilapia as a diversification strategy for penaeid shrimp culture. In: D.E. Alston, B.W. Green, and H.C. Clifford (Editors), IV Symposium on Aquaculture in Central America: Focusing on Shrimp and Tilapia,, 22–24 April 1997, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Asociacion Nacional de Acuicultores de Honduras and the Latin American Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society, pp. 84–93.

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