Freshwater prawn farming: Global status, recent research and a glance at the future

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 210-230

  New, Michael Bernard ^a  

^a Aquaculture without Frontiers   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freshwater prawns; Future; Global; Macrobrachium; Status

Indexed keywords

PRAWN CULTURE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM;

EID: 14644405674     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2005.01237.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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