Current Status and Bottle Neck of Octopod Aquaculture: The Case of American Species

Journal of the World Aquaculture Society

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 735-752

  Uriarte, Iker ^a,b   Iglesias, José ^c   Domingues, Pedro ^c   Rosas, Carlos ^d   Viana, María T ^b,e   Navarro, Juan C ^f   Seixas, Pedro ^g   Vidal, Erica ^h   Ausburger, Alberto ⁱ   Pereda, Sandra ^b   Godoy, Félix ^b   Paschke, Kurt ^a,b   Farías, Ana ^a,b   Olivares, Alberto ^j   Zuñiga, Oscar ^j  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b Centro de Investigacion en Nutricion Tecnologia en Alimentos y Sustentabilida   (Chile)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^f CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^h Paraná State University   (Brazil)

ⁱ Fundacion Chile   (Chile)

^j UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; BENTHOS; CEPHALOPOD; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SURVIVAL;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 83055165629     PISSN: 08938849     EISSN: 17497345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-7345.2011.00524.x     Document Type: Article

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