| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 629 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
General principles -- Water quality -- Environmental aspects -- Desert aquaculture -- Reproduction, life cycles and growth -- Genetics -- Nutrition -- Foods and feeding -- Diseases -- Post-harvest technology and processing -- Economics and marketing -- Seaweed and microalgae -- Carps -- Salmonids -- Tilapias -- Channel catfish -- Marine fish -- Preventing diseases in fish by vaccination -- Soft-shelled turtles -- Marine shrimp -- Other decapod crustaceans -- Bivalve molluscs -- Gastropod molluscs -- Ornamentals -- The next 20 years |
| Summary |
The output from world aquaculture, a multi-billion dollar global industry, continues to rise at a very rapid rate and it is now acknowledged that it will take over from fisheries to become the main source of animal and plant products from aquatic environments in the future. Since the first edition of this excellent and successful book was published, the aquaculture industry has continued to expand at a massive rate globally and has seen huge advances across its many and diverse facets. This new edition of Aquaculture: Farming Aquatic Animals and Plants covers all major aspects of the culture of |
| Analysis |
aquacultuur |
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aquaculture |
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waterplanten |
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aquatic plants |
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waterdieren |
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aquatic animals |
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Aquaculture |
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Aquacultuur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aquaculture.
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Algae culture.
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Aquaculture
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Algae culture
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Aquaculture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lucas, John S., 1940- editor.
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Southgate, Paul C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781444347104 |
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1444347101 |
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9781118687932 |
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1118687930 |
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