Options for producing a warm-water fish in the UK: limits to "Green Growth"?

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 255-264

  Little, David C ^a   Murray, Francis J ^a   Azim, Ekram ^a   Leschen, William ^a   Boyd, Kathleen ^a   Watterson, Andrew ^a   Young, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; COST REDUCTION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOOD PRODUCTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

FISH PRODUCTION; RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE SYSTEMS (RAS); TILAPIA; WARM WATER FISH;

FISH;

TILAPIA;

EID: 41949108452     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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