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Aquaculture

farming aquatic animals and plants

By John S. Lucas,Paul C. Southgate

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Publish Date

2003

Publisher

Blackwell Pub.,Fishing News Books

Language

eng

Pages

630

Description:

Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Amimals and Plants covers all major aspects of the aquaculture of fish, shellfish and algae in freshwater and marine environments. Subject areas covered include water quality and environmental impacts of aquaculture, desert aquaculture, reproduction, life cycles and growth, genetics and stock improvement, nutrition and feed production, diseases, post-harvest technology and processing, economics and marketing. Separate chapters also cover the culture of algae, carps, salmonids, tilapias, channel catfish, barramundi, marine shrimp, freshwater crayfish and prawns, bivalves and marine gastropods.