Overview

Intensive tilapia co-culture is the commercial production of various species of tilapia in conjunction with one or more other marketable species. Tilapia are attractive as a co-cultured fish because of their potential to improve water quality, especially in penaeid shrimp ponds, by consuming plankton and detritus and by altering pathogenic bacterial populations while increasing marketable production. Following introductory chapters covering ecological aspects of co-culture, tilapia feeding habits, historical use, and new models, Tilapia in Intensive Co-Culture is divided into co-culture in freshwater and marine environments. Co-culture core information is presented on Vibrio control, high-rate aquaculture processes, aquaponics, tilapia nutrient profile, and tilapia niche economics and marketing in the U.S, and with carp, catfish, freshwater and marine shrimp in the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. Tilapia in Intensive Co-Culture is the latest book in the prestigious World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Series, published for WAS by Wiley Blackwell. It will be of great use and interest to researchers, producers, investors and policy makers considering tilapia co-culture in terms of environmental and economic sustainability.

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Author:   Peter W. Perschbacher ,  Robert R. Stickney (Texas A&M University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.998kg
ISBN:  

9781118970669

ISBN 10:   1118970667
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   03 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix Foreword xi Randall Brummett Preface xv Chapter 1. Ecological Basis of Tilapia Co-culture Systems 1 Ana Milstein and Martha Hernández Chapter 2. Tilapia Feeding Habits and Environmental Tolerances 25 Robert R. Stickney Chapter 3. Historical Use of Tilapia in Intensive Co-culture 36 Peter W. Perschbacher Chapter 4. New Models and Rationales 50 Robert R. Stickney, Peter W. Perschbacher, and Nick Parker Chapter 5. Sustainability Needs and Challenges: Marine Systems 71 Robert R. Stickney and Robert W. Brick Chapter 6. Luminous Vibrio and the Greenwater Culture of the Tiger Shrimp Penaeus monodon with Tilapia 81 Gilda D. Lio-Po Chapter 7. Tilapia–Shrimp Polyculture 94 Kevin M. Fitzsimmons and Erfan Shahkar Chapter 8. Sustainability Needs and Challenges: Freshwater Systems 114 Peter W. Perschbacher Chapter 9. Pond Co-culture with Catfish Research in the Americas, with Emphasis on Cage-Confined Tilapia 129 Peter W. Perschbacher Chapter 10. Tilapia Co-culture in Cages and In-pond Raceways 148 Michael Masser Chapter 11. Tilapia–Macrobrachium Polyculture 156 Michael B. New and Wagner C. Valenti Chapter 12. Tilapia in High-Rate Aquaculture Processes 186 David E. Brune Chapter 13. Tilapia Co-culture in Egypt 211 Abdel-Fattah M. El-Sayed Chapter 14. Tilapia Co-culture in Israeli Fishponds and Reservoirs 237 Ana Milstein Chapter 15. Aquaponics 246 Rebecca L. Nelson Chapter 16. Nutrient Profiles of Tilapia 261 Ioannis T. Karapanagiotidis Chapter 17. The Economics of Small-Scale Tilapia Aquaculture in the United States 306 Siddhartha Dasgupta and Richard C. Bryant Appendix 1. Field Key to the Commonly Cultured Tilapias, with Species Synopses 319 Peter W. Perschbacher Appendix 2. World Hybrid Tilapia Literature 1980–2014∗ 324 Frank J. Schwartz Scientific Names Index 333 Topical Index 335 Color Plates appear after page 318

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Peter W. Perschbacher is retired Associate Professor of Aquaculture and Fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA. Robert R. Stickney is Professor Emeritus Oceanography and former Sea Grant Director at Texas A & M University in College Station, USA.

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