Nursery Systems and Management

Freshwater Prawns: Biology and Farming

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 108-126

  Coyle, Shawn D ^a   Alston, Dallas E ^b   de Souza Sampaio, Céelia Maria ^c  

^a KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Feeding strategies; Indoor nurseries and flow through or recirculating water management systems; Indoor nurseries in tropical regions; Macrobrachium rosenbergii nursery systems; Multi phase nursery systems; Nurseries maximising production efficiency in grow out ponds; Nursery systems and management; Predaceous insect control in nursery ponds; Stocking and substrate use; Transporting juveniles and grow out ponds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889456390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314649.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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