Use of prophylactic treatments for larval rearing of giant crabs Pseudocarcinus gigas (Lamarck)

Aquaculture

Volumn 158, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 203-214

  Gardner, Caleb ^a,b   Northam, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Taroona Marine Research Laboratories   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crab; Diseases and their control; Fungi; Invertebrates, general; Oxytetracycline; Pseudocarcinus gigas

Indexed keywords

CRAB LARVA; FOULING CONTROL; GIANT CRAB; MEGALOPA; PESTICIDE; PROPHYLAXIS; TOXICITY;

DECAPODA; PSEUDOCARCINUS GIGAS;

EID: 0031574124     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(97)00182-8     Document Type: Article

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