Farm-level costs of settling basins for treatment of effluents from levee-style catfish ponds

Aquacultural Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 171-199

  Engle, Carole R ^a   Valderrama, Diego ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Catfish economics; Catfish effluents; Effluent treatment

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DRAINAGE; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; INVESTMENTS; SETTLING TANKS;

FOODFISH PONDS;

FISH PONDS;

ECONOMICS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FISH; SETTLING BASIN;

CATFISH;

EID: 0038379386     PISSN: 01448609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0144-8609(03)00027-X     Document Type: Article

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