• Economics of penaeid culture in the Americas 

      Griffin, Wade; Lawrence, Addison; Johns, Michael (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Shrimp culture in the Americas began in the early 1970's and has experienced rapid growth in some Latin American countries. Currently, Latin America produces one-third of all cultured shrimp with Ecuador as the leading ...
    • Economics of shrimp culture in Asia 

      Hirasawa, Yutaka (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      There is a common belief that the demand for shrimp is so strong that the future of shrimp culture is very bright. However, there is a problem here. The Japanese market for shrimp has been expanding over the past 20 years, ...
    • Effect of carrageenan micro-binded diet on the larval stages of Penaeus indicus 

      Yashiro, Y.; Bautista, M.; Daza, E. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      At present, most hatcheries depend on live food like diatoms, Chlorella, rotifer and brine shrimp to rear the larval stages of various penaeid species. Mass production of live feed requires much space (tanks) and labor, ...
    • Effect of cholesterol in artificial diets for Mediterranean prawns 

      Bianchini, M.L. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Mediterranean prawn (Penaeus kerathurus Forsskal) postlarvae (2 months old) were fed ad libitum with previously tested artificial diet (41% D.W., mainly of vegetal origin) supplemented with different percentages of cholesterol ...
    • Effect of dietary fatty acids on the fatty acid composition of Penaeus monodon juveniles 

      Catacutan, M.; Kanazawa, A. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Six purified diets containing either pollack liver oil or a combination of dietary fatty acids (18:1ω9, 18:3ω3, 20:5ω3) at 5% level and a control (no lipid) were assessed for their influence on the fatty acid composition ...
    • Effect of temperature and salinity on the hatching of eggs and larval development of sugpo, Penaeus monodon 

      Reyes, E.P. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Incubation of Penaeus monodon eggs and rearing of different larval stages were undertaken at nine temperature-salinity combinations. The eggs, nauplii, zoea and mysis from one spawner kept as stock culture at ambient ...
    • Effect of various levels of squid protein on growth and some biochemical parameters of Penaeus japonicus juveniles 

      Suarez, LE.C; Guillaume, Jean; Wormhoudt, A. Van (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      An unknown growth factor previously suspected in squid meal was found in the protein fraction of squid (Loligo vulgaris). It is clearly different from hydro-alcohol-soluble feed attractants that are also present in squid ...
    • Effects of diet on reproductive performance of ablated Penaeus monodon broodstock 

      Millamena, O.M.; Pudadera, R.A.; Catucatan, M.R. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Four practical diets were compared for their effects upon ovarian maturation and spawning of ablated Penaeus monodon broodstock. Diets were formulated based upon the fatty acid profile of wild P. monodon. Diets 1 and 3 ...
    • The effects of manures and pelleted feeds on survival, growth and yield of Penaeus stylirostris and Penaeus vannamei in Panama 

      Garson, Glenn I.; Pretto, Richard M.; Rouse, David B. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries, Development Center, 1985)
      Brackishwater ponds (0.8 m deep and 600 m2) on the Pacific Coast of Panama were stocked at 5/m2 with post-larval shrimp (1 cm, 0.05 g) collected from the wild. Species composition at stocking was 56% Penaeus vannamei, 33% ...
    • Effects of some water-soluble vitamins on the growth of Penaeus monodon juveniles 

      Catacutan, M.; Kanazawa, A. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      The response of Penaeus monodon juveniles (ave. wt.= 0.076 g) in terms of survival and growth rates to vitamin test diets was observed in a 35-day feeding experiment. The prawns were reared in 60-ℓ oval tanks containing ...
    • The effects of stocking densities on growth and survival of Penaeus vannamei in cow manure-enriched ponds 

      Lee, Cheng Sheng; Sweeney, James N.; Richards, Billy (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Ecuadorian Penaeus vannamei were stocked in eight dirt ponds (approximately 163 m2) at four different types of density, i.e., 5 shrimp/m2, 10 shrimp/m2, 15 shrimp/m2, and 20 shrimp/m2. The initial body weight ranged between ...
    • Environmental physiology of the prawn Penaeus (melicertus) latisulcatus 

      Ramasamy, A.; Pandian, Al.P. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      There are a number of intrinsic and extrinsic factors which affect the normal routine activity of the prawn. The present study attempts to elucidate the optimum levels of various environmental factors for the culture of ...
    • Evaluation of artificial feeds for shrimp (Penaeus monodon) production in brackishwater ponds 

      Tabbu, N.S.; Kungvankij, P.; Taleon, GA.; Potesta, I.; Bautista, M. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      The experiment was conducted in fifteen 500-m2 brackishwater ponds to determine the response of Penaeus monodon juveniles fed with various artificial diets. Five treatments with three replicates each were: two commercial ...
    • Extensive and semi-intensive culture of prawn and shrimp in the Philippines 

      Apud, Florentino D. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Various farming systems for prawn and shrimp are compared, with emphasis on the extensive and semi-intensive culture of tiger prawn Penaeus monodon and white shrimp Penaeus indicus in monoculture or in polyculture with ...
    • Factors affecting maturation and spawning of Penaeus esculentus in the laboratory 

      Crocos, Peter J. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Adult tiger prawns Penaeus esculentus were held in laboratory tanks under varying conditions of tank size, density, temperature and photoperiod for assessment of ovarian maturation and spawning. Both eyestalk ablated and ...
    • Floating cage nursery culture system for Penaeus monodon 

      de la Peña, Dioscoro; Young, Alexander Thomas; Prospero, Oscar Q. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      The use of floating cages as nursery for Penaeus monodon postlarvae was tried at the Batan, Aklan Substation of the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department. The cages were made of bamboo and measured 2 × 5 × 1.5 m (effective volume ...
    • Genetic changes during development of penaeid shrimp 

      Lester, James L. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      As penaeid shrimp grow from the earliest naupliar stages, through protozoeal and mysis stages, to postlarvae, they develop greater morphological and behavioral resemblance to the adults. Electrophoretic analysis of cytoplasmic ...
    • Growth and productivity of juvenile banana prawns, Penaeus merguiensis in natural and laboratory systems 

      Staples, Derek J.; Vance, David J.; Heales, Donald S. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      Growth and survival of Penaeus merguiensis juveniles were measured over four years in the Norman River estuary, south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria. Growth in carapace length for the first 8-9 weeks after settlement was ...
    • Growth and survival of Penaeus monodon postlarvae with different feeding regimes and stocking densities in earthen brackishwater nursery ponds 

      Tabbu, N.S. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      The effect of different stocking densities (50, 100 and 150/m2) and two feeding regimes (natural food, consisting mainly of lablab, and natural food plus artificial diet) on the growth and survival of Penaeus monodon ...
    • The growth of a bialgal culture and its use as food for shrimp larvae 

      de la Cruz, Alfredo; Alfonso, Elvira; Leal, Sylvia (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1985)
      The cultivation of the microalga Tetraselmis chuii with the protection of the extracellular products of Chlorella kessleri, grown in a bialgal culture, allows its development in outdoor tanks without special conditions of ...