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Impact of feed and feed ingredients on the environment and microflora of farmed shrimp

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Title Impact of feed and feed ingredients on the environment and microflora of farmed shrimp
 
Creator Ranjit, S
 
Subject Theses
Farming/Culture
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
Aquafeed
 
Description Shrimp constitute an important item of the epicurean diet and the most valuable
commodity among seafoods in the international market. The insatiable demand of this
resource for human consumption prompted its maximum exploitation from the natural
resources with the result the production from capture fisheries has reached a stage of
stagnation in most parts of the world. It is in this context, the technological success
achieved in culturing shrimp with high production rates about two decades ago came up
as a boon to the gloom of uncertainties about the future prospects of shrimp industry of
the world. The years that followed witnessed a dramatic expansion of coastal shrimp
aquaculture especially in the Asia-Pacific, which today accounts about 80% of the
world's total shrimp production through farming. Although the global production of
cultured shrimp has increased many-fold over the past two decades, the annual
production trend suggests that the exponential growth period for shrimp culture is
drawing to a close. According to available statistics, the world's shrimp farmers
produced an estimated 0.81 million mt of whole shrimp during 1999, which is far behind
the production level of 1.6 million mt predicted for the year 2000 by experts at the
AQUA TECH- '94 international conference on aquaculture organized by INFOFISH in
August 1994 at Colombo, Sri Lanka.
 
Date 2000
 
Type Thesis
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7118/1/TH-88_Ran.pdf
Ranjit, S (2000) Impact of feed and feed ingredients on the environment and microflora of farmed shrimp. ["eprint_fieldopt_thesis_type_phd" not defined] thesis, Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Versova.