Commercial Freshwater Prawn Farming and Enhancement Around the World

Freshwater Prawns: Biology and Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 346-399

  New, Michael Bernard ^a   Kutty, Methil Narayanan ^b  

^a Wroxton Lodge   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Capture fisheries for Macrobrachium spp.; Commercial freshwater prawn farming; Department of Fisheries stocking prawns and enhancing fisheries in reservoirs; Farmed production of M. rosenbergii; Freshwater prawn farming activity in Guyana; Freshwater prawn farming and enhancement around the world; Freshwater prawn farming in Malaysia; Freshwater prawn farming national economy in Bangladesh; National production of giant river prawns and polyculture; Open water stocking of M. rosenbergii and M. malcolmsonii

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862602932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314649.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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