Three generations of prawns without the Z chromosome: Viable WW Macrobrachium rosenbergii all-female populations in polyculture with Oreochromis niloticus
Three generations of prawns without the Z chromosome: Viable WW Macrobrachium rosenbergii all-female populations in polyculture with Oreochromis niloticus
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10.1016/j.aquaculture.2019.734531
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2020-01-15
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4.5
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Sagi, Amir
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作者:
Molcho, Jonathan;Levy, Tom;Sagi, Amir
Tilapia has become an increasingly popular aquaculture species, with a crop of 4.2 million tons produced in more than 78 countries at a value of∼ 11 billion USD in 2016 (FAO, 2018). Paralleling this increasing popularity of tilapia in recent years is that of crustacean species: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported a production of about 7.8 million tons in 2016 (FAO, 2018), of which over 230 thousand tons comprised freshwater prawns (∼ 3% of total crustacean culture) valued at∼ 1.7 billion USD. In light of the high demand for aquaculture products and projections for increases in demand in the coming decades (Godfray, 2010), attempts are underway to increase global production by different means.Alongside agro-technological efforts to increase efficiency and to enlarge culture areas, polyculture–using the same water and land resources for more than one crop during the same growing season–may be an effective methodology to increase yields. Such a methodology may be particularly relevant for the large tilapia aquaculture industry, which has an estimated global pond area of 110,830 km 2 (Boyd et al., 2010), but which provides only a moderate income to the grower from the relatively inexpensive tilapia. A number of studies have demonstrated successful tilapia–prawn polyculture (Martínez-Porchas et al., 2010; Wang and Lu, 2016), with the tilapia occupying the water column and feeding on floating feed and zooplankton, and the prawns mostly occupying the bottom area of the pond, where they feed on benthic flora and tilapia waste (Cruz et al., 2008). For farmers, the attractiveness of the higher yields of such polyculture systems is further enhanced by the added economic value provided by the high-value crustacean species: The incorporation into tilapia ponds of a high-value prawn crop could make a significant contribution both to the growers' income and to the productivity of the global aquaculture industry. Furthermore, if monosex populations of both tilapia and prawns were to be integrated into such a polyculture approach, profitability could be increased even further.