Aquaculture

According to the World Resources Institute, aquaculture—or fish farming—has grown rapidly to meet world fish demand, more than doubling production between 2000 and 2012. New research shows that aquaculture production will need to more than double again between now and 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population. Resources available in this sub-theme include aquaculture development strategies, country-wide aquaculture project reports, and institutional practices for aquaculture strengthening, among other resources that support improving aquaculture globally.

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Aquaculture Resources

The Context of Small-Scale Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture Systems in Africa: A Case Study of Malawi

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
This study, supplemented by field surveys, summarizes available literature on aquaculture and the context of aquaculture in Malawi. It provides a national case study of one African context in which small-scale aquaculture has developed and in which integrated systems of agriculture-aquaculture...Read more
Regional focus: 
MalawiSub-Saharan Africa

Final Report Covering Period 1988-1993: Contribution of Mangrove Detritus to The Production of Commercially Important Shrimp Species

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
The overall hypothesis we tested was that juveniles prawns living within mangrove creeks derive significantly greater nutritional benefits from mangrove detritus than do juveniles and adults living offshore. We used a multiple isotope approach (carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur) to elucidate the degree...Read more
Regional focus: 
MalaysiaEast Asia and Pacific

Training Resource Book on a Participatory Method for Modeling Bio Resource Flows

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
This training resource book was developed for people working with farmers in farming systems research and extension. It deals specifically with a farmer-participatory method for constructing pictorial models. The model, in this case, concerns bio resource flows between aquaculture and agriculture...Read more
Regional focus: 
United States

A Bibliography of the Pearl Oysters

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
The culture of pearl oysters, once the closely guarded monopoly of the Japanese, has now proliferated throughout the Indo-Pacific region and has the potential of providing much-needed export income to cash-poor nations. This has already happened in French Polynesia, where the culture of Pinctada...Read more
Regional focus: 
United States

Cooperative Marine Technology Program for the Middle East: Annual Report for 1990

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
Historically, mariculture has been one of the most important component of the Cooperative Program, because it deals directly with food production, is in an early stage of development, and lends itself easily to cooperative research. This progress report relates to progress achieved during the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Middle East and North Africa

Application of Limnology for Efficient Nutrient Utilization in Tropical Pond Aquaculture

Published: 
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
Phosphorous, nitrogen and carbon have been key limiting nutrients on the forefront of eutrophication literature for more than four decades. Concepts developed by the limnological community regarding these nutrients and their cycles in aquatic environments are now becoming the basis for management...Read more

Thailand: Cycle II of The Global Experiment

Published: 
December 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
Nile tilapia (Oreochromisniloticus)are commonly grown in ponds fertilized to increase primary and secondary production. The fertilization fishponds has been widely studied, often with conflicting results. Temperate ponds, with low stocking densities, seem to require only phosphorus additions(Yamada...Read more
Regional focus: 
ThailandEast Asia and Pacific

Final Evaluation of the Oman Fisheries Development Project (Project No. 272-0101.1)

Published: 
December 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
Final evaluation of a 1983-1989 project to develop Oman's fishery sector by strengthening the technical capabilities of the Directorate General of Fisheries (DGF). The project's impact on DGF institution building and the development of Oman's fishery sector has been minimal. Major...Read more

AID grant no. 598-0616-G-00-0047-00 to the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey -- Campus Guaymas for training and technical assistance to promote the adoption of turtle excluder devices (TEDs) by the Mexican shrimp trawler fleet

Published: 
September 21, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
Grant is provided under the regional Intercountry Technology Transfer project to Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Guaymas campus, to promote the wide- scale adoption of turtle excluder devices (TED's) throughout the Mexican shrimp fishing industry. Without the TED...Read more
Regional focus: 
Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on AID Grant to the South Pacific Commission

Published: 
September 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
A grant proposal and report that was made to the South Pacific Commission to be used for the support of the SPC Tuna and Billfish Assessment Program.Read more
Regional focus: 
East Asia and Pacific

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