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Recommendations regarding fish species suitable for stocking. Recommendation No. 4

Sepik River Fish Stock Enhancement Project: PNG/85/001. Field Document No. 15

Year of publication 1991

Pages 21 p.

Author Coates, D.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This document is a sequel to that of Coates (1990a) that outlined the justification and need for fish stocking in the Sepik/Ramu basin and Coates (1990b) that detailed a limited number of species recommended for introduction for fish stock enhancement purposes. The project has now recommended that the river basin be stocked with the Java Carp, Puntius gonionotus, as an additional species. This document serves to archive this recommendation and details the results of the code of practice regardin g fish species transfers (Turner 1988) as applied to this transfer.

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