Public Health Perspectives on Aquaculture

Current environmental health reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 227-238

  Gormaz, Juan G ^a   Fry, Jillian P ^b,c   Erazo, Marcia ^a   Love, David C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Environment; Fish; Fish meal; Fish oil; Health; n 3 PUFA; Non communicable diseases; Nutrition; Public health; Seafood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941034691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21965412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40572-014-0018-8     Document Type: Article

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