Current status and prospects of farming the giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man 1879) and the Amazon river prawn Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller 1862)) in Brazil

Aquaculture Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 984-992

  De Almeida Marques, Helcio Luis ^a   Moraes Valenti, Patricia M C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESCA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Culture; Current situation; Freshwater prawn; Marketing strategies; Trends

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MARKETING; PRAWN CULTURE;

AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL;

EID: 84862635275     PISSN: 1355557X     EISSN: 13652109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2109.2011.03032.x     Document Type: Review

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