Report of Consultancy at the Regional Lead Centre in China for Integrated Fish Farming

NACA/WP/82/6

October 1982

	Report of Consultancy at the Regional Lead Centre in China for Integrated Fish Farming
	TABLE OF CONTENTS

P. Edwards

Associate Professor of Aquaculture
Agricultural and Food Engineering Division
Asian Institute of Technology
Bangkok, Thailand

NETWORK OF AQUACULTURE CENTRES IN ASIA
Bangkok, Thailand
October 1982

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1 INTRODUCTION

2 CHRONOLOGY

3 COLLECTION OF EXISTING DATA ON INTEGRATED FARMING

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Farms Visited
3.3 Recommended Procedures for Data Collection
3.4 Detailed Format for Data Collection
3.5 Comments on Detailed Format

4 LECTURE NOTES ON UTILIZATION OF ANIMAL AND PLANT WASTES

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Pond food organisms

4.2.1 Food chains
4.2.2 Phytoplankton
4.2.3 Bacteria
4.2.4 Zooplankton & chironomids
4.2.5 Direct consumption of manure

4.3 Sanitary engineering concepts in aquaculture

4.3.1 Chemical oxygen demand
4.3.2 Biochemical oxygen demand
4.3.3 Organic loading

4.4 Livestock waste characteristics
4.5 Plant waste characteristics
4.6 Dissolved oxygen
4.7 Nutrients

4.7.1 Carbon
4.7.2 Nitrogen
4.7.3 Phosphorus

4.8 Addition of waste