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The culture and use of brine shrimp, Artemia salina, as food for hatchery-raised larval prawns, shrimps and fish in Southeast Asia

Year of publication 1978

Pages p.50

Author Patrick Sorgeloos, (Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Chachoengsao (Thailand). National Freshwater Prawn Research and Training Centre);Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Project

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Synopsis (short abstract) This paper is based on consultancy tours made in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia in Southeast Asia. These extended in intermittent periods from June 1976 to November 1978. Four visits were made to the Philippines where work was mainly done with the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) and in Thailand and Indonesia with ongoing FAO/UNDP projects. The work in these countries varied from assistance on the effective use of acquired Artemia sali na in fish hatcheries to raising it in pilot-scale raceways and also initiation of trial cultures in natural saline earth ponds for the production of cysts.

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Sorgeloos, P. 1978. The culture and use of brine shrimp, Artemia salina, as food for hatchery-raised larval prawns, shrimps and fish in Southeast Asia. 50 p.

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