Can I read Hatchery Culture Of Bivalves: Fao Fisheries Technical Paper on EtoBox?

Hatchery Culture Of Bivalves: Fao Fisheries Technical Paper by Michael M Helm; Neil Bourne; Alessandro Lovatelli; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hatchery Culture Of Bivalves: Fao Fisheries Technical Paper about?

Bivalve mollusc culture is an important and rapidly expanding sector of world aquaculture production, representing approximately 20% of this output at 14 million tonnes in 2000. The majority of production is from natural populations although increasingly stocks are approaching or have exceeded maximum sustainable yields. Enhancement of stocks through the capture and relaying of natural seed in both extensive and intensive forms of culture is common practice worldwide but the reliability of natur al recruitment can never be guaranteed and conflicts over the use of the coastal zone are becoming ever more pressing. A solution to meeting the seed requirements of the bivalve industry, applicable to the production of high unit value species such as clams, oysters and scallops, is hatchery culture. The production of seed through hatchery propagation accounts at the present time for only a small percentage of the total seed requirement but it is likely to become increasingly important as work continues to produce genetically selected strains with desirable characteristics suited to particular conditions. The advent of bivalve hatcheries was in the 1960s in Europe and the U.S. Since those e

Who reads Hatchery Culture Of Bivalves: Fao Fisheries Technical Paper?

Author

Michael M Helm; Neil Bourne; Alessandro Lovatelli; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Publisher

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9789251052242

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Business, Economics