Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to AquacultureA practical guide for people in the aquaculture industry and for those about to enter it. It covers aquaculture industries and provides practical skills that should allow people to solve everyday problems in the day-to-day management of aquatic stock. |
Contents
What makes aquaculture work? | 1 |
What is the production managers role? | 7 |
Fish husbandry | 16 |
Freshwater flowthrough systems | 20 |
Aquaculture categories | 31 |
Oxygen | 45 |
Pond maintenance | 58 |
Stock management and grading | 71 |
Likely problems | 209 |
Spawning | 222 |
The nursery stage | 228 |
A susceptible host | 235 |
Treating pathogens in the pond | 253 |
Treating internal diseases | 255 |
Bird netting | 277 |
Postharvest handling | 291 |
Algal lawns | 95 |
The role of nutrition | 101 |
Specific diets | 113 |
Oxygen and metabolism | 131 |
Water quantity | 138 |
System design | 143 |
Recirculation systems | 156 |
The economics of recirculation technology | 170 |
Equipment the farmer can do without but would be beneficial | 183 |
Quarantine | 196 |
Presentation and packaging | 305 |
The growout stage | 315 |
Summary | 319 |
Planningdevelopment approval | 324 |
Operational records | 337 |
Species | 353 |
Species AZ 354 | 372 |
Epilogue | 435 |
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