Discusses how to successfully farm 35 food fishes. Written for professionals and amateurs, the text covers general and scientific aspects of aquaculture; integrating systems with plants, land animals, and cage cultures; pond construction; water chemistry; marketing and shipping concerns; diseases; and regulations. Throughout, an emphasis is placed upon efficiency and working with natural ecosystems. Booknews, Inc.
The aquaculturalist's bible-for the novice and professional, covering all freshwater species and how best to raise them.   Includes pond construction and repair, water quality and chemistry, breeding, fertilization, shipment, diseases, marketing, legal restrictions, and integration with plants and farm life. Financial costing has been updated. "The best published handbook in the field." -American Scientist

Aquaculture in the United States is a significant agribusiness industry, but it is also a troubled one whose future is clouded by doubt.
Many aquaculture practices, such as deliberately introducing exotic species, hatcheries programs, and pen culture in protected waters have come under intense attack from environmentalists.
A provocative look at the past, present and future of a troubled industry.  Describes how public opinion has changed from viewing aquaculture as a friend of the environment to considering it an enemy.   Presents the conflict between what is technically possible and what is economically and environmentally sound.
Explains why aquaculture is thriving outside the U.S. but is facing difficulties in this country.
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Proceedings of the October 1994 workshop.   Drawing from international research, 34 papers cover this important approach to integrated farming systems.   They report on case studies of successful IFF operations, experiments to enhance IFF performance, bioeconomic survey and modeling analyses, research on farm waste use and pond ecology, socioeconomic elements of IFF extension and adoption, and the bio-technical and economic aspects of adapting IFF to reservoirs, marshlands, rice paddies. Booknews, Inc.
Integrated Fish Farming (IFF) is a sustainable-agriculture technology practiced widely in Asia and other regions of the world.   This integrated technology can offer farmers economic improvements while lessening the adverse environmental impacts of farming.   IFF systems typically involve a combination of fish polyculture, integration of agricultural production (livestock and/or crops) with aquaculture, and on-farm waste recycling.

The proceedings of a December 1994 seminar held in Harare, Zimbabwe to review the data available on the state of African freshwater environments and their fisheries, and to offer guidelines for improving fisheries management and the conservation of aquatic habitats and resources.
The 27 papers consider such topics as the pollution and degradation of inland waters and the consequences for fisheries, the impact of dam construction and climate change, the introduction of new species, preliminary... read more
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