Crowding female red claw crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus, under small-tanks hatchery conditions: What is the limit?

Aquaculture

Volumn 181, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 235-240

  Barki, Assaf ^a   Karplus, Ilan ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Broodstock density, Crayfish; Cherax quadricarinatus; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; HATCHERY; OVERCROWDING; REPRODUCTION; STOCKING DENSITY;

DECAPODA;

EID: 0034651002     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0044-8486(99)00235-5     Document Type: Article

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