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No Thumbnail AvailableProjectSeminar report on the status of seaweed culture in China, India, Indonesia, Korea R., Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand
Regional Seafarming Development and Demonstration Project
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No results found.Seaweed utilization as food has a long history in Eastern Asia, particularly in countries such as China, North Korea and South Korea. The importance of these marine plants as a source of nutrients and as components to numerous consumer and industrial products has become increasingly important within the last few decades. Seaweed collection from natural fisheries has been carried out for a long time, however intensive aquaculture is relatively recent history. The seaweed aquaculture sector ha s not developed uniformly in the Asian region. Countries such as China and South Korea have developed sophisticated culture techniques being able to control the entire life cycle of a number of commercially important algae species. In contrast, other Asian countries relay mainly on vegetative propagation such as for Eucheuma in the Philippines. The importance of seaweed output from aquaculture practices is clearly visible from Table 1 and Table 2. Table 1 shows the total production of seaweeds b y species in the Republic of Korea from 1980 to 1986, while Table 2 shows the production derived from aquaculture practices. In 1986 the sea mustard (Undaria pinatifida) production output was 354,661 MT of which over 97 % (346,434 MT) was from aquaculture output. Similarly, almost 100 % of the laver produced (Porphyra spp.) was derived from aquaculture. A great variety of seaweeds are cultured in the region and the total annual production output accounts for a major portion of all maricultured species. Figure 1 shows the aquaculture production in Asia in 1985 by major resource group. Seaweed accounted for 34 % of the year's total aquaculture production next only to finfish which accounted for 44 %. The species of commercial importance vary according to geographical location. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (series)Case study of seven commercial seaweeds resources 1987
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No results found.Seven case studies are presented on commercial seaweed resources; five on wild crops, respectively Ascophyllum nodosum, Chondrus crispus, Gelidium, Laminaria longicruris and Macrocystis , are provided along with case studies of the farmed crops of Eucheuma and Laminaria japonica . Individually the cases range from descriptions of the wild crops and their management to the managed production of farmed crops including, in several examples, some information on economics and/or processing. These ini tial seven cases range from those emphasizing but one species from but one part of one country, to studies of a genus as it occurs commercially throughout the world. -
ProjectReport on a Regional Study and Workshop on the Taxonomy, Ecology and Processing of Economically Important Red Seaweeds 1996
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