Cage and pen culture in Sri Lanka
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Abstract
Sri Lanka has about 300,000 acres of fresh water bodies in the form of irrigation tanks, hydropower reservoirs and flood lakes and about 300,000 acres of brackish water areas. This paper briefly describes present aquaculture development and future prospects with regard to pen and cage culture in Sri Lanka.
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Jayamaha, D. E. S. (1979). Cage and pen culture in Sri Lanka. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Pen Cage Culture of Fish, 11-22 February 1979, Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines (pp. 121-123). Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines: Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center.
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