The primary disease problems that affect different life stages of freshwater fish reared in a variety of water sources (ground water, springs, rivers, lakes and reservoirs) are highlighted in this chapter. These include diseases that are current problems in freshwater cage culture of coldwater...

The ultimate goal is to achieve food security, create employment and generate income. This book is an attempt to help develop the tilapia industry while keeping those goals in mind. This manual is written to cover all aspects of tilapia farming as a business. Starting from the importance of tilapia ...

This section covers the possible methods of growing table fish in ponds as a separate business after stocking fry or fingerlings obtained from the hatcheries or nurseries. Pond culture systems are described in detail and economic analyses are also carried out using some case studies so that...

Growing tilapia in cages in lakes, reservoirs and rivers has become a popular aquaculture activity in many parts of the world. Cage culture of tilapia is important to those farmers who wish to culture mixed-sex fish. This chapter discusses the advantages and disadvantages of cage culture; site...

Culturing two or more species together in the same system is called polyculture. This chapter discusses the polyculture of tilapia with other suitable species; and highlights the feeds and feeding programme, harvesting and socioeconomics of polyculture.

The livestock-fish farming system became more popular recently due to an increase in agricultural input costs and low output prices. Farmers see this system as an alternative way of reducing costs of production and increasing their incomes. More importantly, tilapia is the species considered to be...

The third edition of this book contains 9 chapters that define aquaculture, the different types of aquaculture systems, how to get started, maintaining water quality, disease prevention and control, reproduction, feeding and feed quality and some general and specific farm management procedures and...

This chapter focuses on cage culture and its importance in the 21st century. The current and past production trends for traditional fisheries and aquaculture are compared as well as expected future trends in both sectors. The production and economic value of the top 15 currently cultured species...

In this chapter, the intention is to provide some insight into the emergent greening (environment friendly methods) of aquaculture marketing activities based on events primarily from the turn of the 21st century and the contemporary changes within the wider markets for foods. This chapter also...

The concept, methods and systems of agribusiness are described. Included in this chapter are case studies of agribusiness applied to Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus, Atlantic salmon Salmo salar, and Barramundi Lates calcarifer.