Fish Farming Systems

Integrated fish farming is a sustainable agriculture technology practised widely across the world. It is a diversified and coordinated way of farming or producing agricultural items in the fish farms with fish as the main product. The items produced are to be used either as source of feeds and fertilizer, source of additional income or both. The wise integration of these items in a fish farm promotes the full utilisation of its land area and recycling of wastes and by products, minimises the operation expenses in feeds and fertilizer, improves the living conditions of the workers due to the increases of income and maintains a balanced ecosystem. This book provides a thorough and detailed interdisciplinary coverage of integrated fish farming systems. It places integrated fish farming in a global context, reporting on case studies of successful integrated fish farming operations, experiments to enhance the farming performance, research on farm waste use and pond ecology, socio-economic elements of fish farming extension and adoption, and the biotechnical and economic aspects of adapting integrated fish farming to reservoirs, marshlands, rice paddies and marginal habitats. This book is designed for farmers, extension workers, decision makers, students and researchers concerned with integrated aquaculture. It will make a significant contribution to the practice of integrated fish farming in developing countries all over the world for many years to come.