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Adding value to the products of aquaculture

The smoking of giant clams from Palau and milk fish from Kiribati

Year of publication 1989

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages p.29

Author Trachet, Nick

Product type Project

Category Programme / project report

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The designations employed in the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal or constitutional status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitations of its frontiers or boundaries.

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