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Contribution to Book
Aquaculture
Field Guide to Appropriate Technology (2003)
  • Michael A Rice, University of Rhode Island
Abstract

This is the chapter on small-scale aquaculture within a volume intended as a guide for practitioners engaged in sustainable rural livelihood and food production projects in the developing world. Included in this chapter on aquaculture are fundamentals of aquaculture water quality, selection of sites and construction methods for fish ponds, and management techniques for carp and tilapia which are nutritious and easy to grow in artisanal ponds. The fundamentals of cage culture of fish is also covered, along with the fundamentals of culturing oysters and other molluscan shellfish in coastal waters.

Publication Date
2003
Editor
Barrett Hazeltine and Christopher Bull
Publisher
Academic Press/Elsevier
ISBN
01-23351805-55
Citation Information
Michael A Rice. "Aquaculture" AmsterdamField Guide to Appropriate Technology (2003)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_rice/37/