Integrated Fish Farming

Jack A Mathias Freshwater Institute, Winnipeg, Canada
Anthony T Charles Saint Mary's University
Hu Baotong Freshwater Fisheries Res Ctr, Wuxi, China

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Cat. #: L1260 ISBN: 1566702607 Publication Date: 10/24/1997 Number of Pages: 432

Integrated Fish Farming (IFF) is a sustainable-agriculture technology practiced widely in Asia and other regions of the world. This integrated technology can offer farmers economic improvements while lessening the adverse environmental impacts of farming. IFF systems typically involve a combination of fish polyculture, integration of agricultural production (livestock and/or crops) with aquaculture, and on-farm waste recycling.

Drawing on research presented by experts from around the world at the International Workshop on Integrated Fish Farming, this book provides thorough, detailed and truly interdisciplinary coverage of one of the world's most important approaches to integrated farming systems. Integrated Fish Farming places IFF in a global context, reporting on case studies of successful IFF operations, experiments to enhance IFF performance, bioeconomic survey and modeling analyses, research on farm waste use and pond ecology, socioeconomic elements of IFF extension and adoption, and the bio-technical and economic aspects of adapting IFF to reservoirs, marshlands, rice paddies and marginal habitats.

• Broad interdisciplinary coverage of all major components of IFF systems, coverage unavailable in any other volume
• Case studies of a wide variety of successful IFF systems
• Coverage of social, economic, organizational, and ecological perspectives
• Evaluations of developments in Asia, Africa and Europe