Culture of Winter Flounder

Practical Flatfish Culture and Stock Enhancement

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 101-122

  Fairchild, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral conditioning for stock enhancement; Broodstock diet and nutrition; Broodstock husbandry; Broodstock system design and requirements; Collection of eggs and egg incubation systems; Genetics for culture versus enhancement; Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski (ISMER); Juvenile system design and requirements; Larval system design and requirements; Weaning onto formulated feeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886204952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813810997.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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