Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Mangroves
SWES 474/574
Pamila Ramotar, Ashlee Rhudy and Thomas Benson
Contents
•Introduction
•Impacts of shrimp farming
•Shrimp diseases
•Benefits of Aquaculture
•Mitigating effects
•Conclusions
Introduction
• Mangrove forests support a wealth of life, from
crustaceans to people, and most importantly the
health of the planet.
• At first glance, shrimp might seem the perfect export for a poor country
in a hot climate
• The developing world has the available land and right climate to farm it.
• A prime location for shrimp ponds, though, happens to be the shore zone
occupied by mangroves, marshes or mainly salty flats
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• The relative to low ecological value of tropical and subtropical marshes
and salt flats, have been conceived as coastal wastelands with low
ecological and economic value.
• Few attempts have been made to value salt marshes in economic and
ecological terms
• 69,400 ha in Thailand
(Dierberg and Kiattisimkul 1996)
•Intensive culture system: the shrimp are raised in high density and
insensitively managed tanks and ponds
1. Pond preparation
2. Good quality seed selection
3. Water quality management
4. Feed management
5. Health monitoring/Biosecurity
6. Pond bottom monitoring
7. Disease management
8. Better Harvest and post-harvest
Practices
9. Record maintenance/Traceability
10. Environmental awareness and
instituted educational programs helps
to promote suitable shrimp farming
Income from pre-existing livelihood activities like fishing
and farming may be affected negatively by the loss of
habitat and environmental degradation.