Tilapia in Intensive Co–culture

Intensive tilapia co–culture is the commercial production of various species of tilapia in conjunction with one or more other marketable species. Tilapia are attractive as a co–cultured fish because of their potential to improve water quality, especially in penaeid shrimp ponds, by consuming plankton and detritus and by altering pathogenic bacterial populations while increasing marketable production.

Following introductory chapters covering ecological aspects of co–culture, tilapia feeding habits, historical use, and new models, Tilapia in Intensive Co–Culture is divided into co–culture in freshwater and marine environments. Co–culture core information is presented on Vibrio control, high–rate aquaculture processes, aquaponics, tilapia nutrient profile, and tilapia niche economics and marketing in the U.S, and with carp, catfish, freshwater and marine shrimp in the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia.

Tilapia in Intensive Co–Culture is the latest book in the prestigious World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Series, published for WAS by Wiley Blackwell. It will be of great use and interest to researchers, producers, investors and policy makers considering tilapia co–culture in terms of environmental and economic sustainability.

About the Editors
Peter W. Perschbacher is retired Associate Professor of Aquaculture and Fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, USA. 
Robert R. Stickney is Professor Emeritus Oceanography and former Sea Grant Director at Texas A & M University in College Station, USA.

Authors Page

Foreword
Randall Brummett

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Ecological Basis of Tilapia Co–Culture Systems
Ana Milstein and Martha Hérnandez

Chapter 2. Tilapia Feeding Habits and Tolerances
Robert R. Stickney

Chapter 3. Historical Use of Tilapia in Co–Culture
Peter W. Perschbacher

Chapter 4. New Co–Culture Models and Rationales
Robert R. Stickney, Peter W. Perschbacher and Nick Parker

Marine Systems

Chapter 5. Sustainability Needs and Challenges:  Marine Systems
Robert R. Stickney and Robert W. Brick

Chapter 6. Luminous Vibrio and the Green Water Culture of the Tiger Shrimp Penaeus monodon with Tilapia
Gilda D. Lio–Po

Chapter 7. Tilapia–Shrimp Polyculture
Kevin Fitzsimmons and Erfan Shahkar

Freshwater Systems

Chapter 8. Sustainability Needs and Challenges:  Freshwater Systems
Peter W. Perschbacher

Chapter 9. Pond Co–Culture with Catfish Research in the Americas, with Emphasis on Cage–Confined Tilapia
Peter W. Perschbacher

Chapter 10. Tilapia Co–Culture in Cages and In–Pond Raceways
Michael M. Masser

Chapter 11. Tilapia–Macrobrachium Polyculture
Michael B. New and Wagner C. Valenti

Chapter 12. Tilapia in High–Rate Aquaculture Processes
David E. Brune

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Chapter 13. Tilapia Co–Culture in Egypt
Abdul–Fatah M. El–Sayed

Chapter 14. Tilapia Co–Culture in Israeli Fishponds and Reservoirs
Ana Milstein

Chapter 15. Aquaponics
Rebecca L. Nelson

Chapter 16. Nutrient Profiles of Tilapia
Ioannis T. Karapanagiotidis

Chapter 17. The Economics of Small–Scale Tilapia Aquaculture in the United States
Siddhartha Dasgupta and Richard C. Bryant

Appendix 1. Field Key to the Commonly–Cultured Tilapias, with Species Synopses
Peter W. Perschbacher

Appendix 2. World Hybrid Tilapia Literature 1980–1014
Frank J. Schwartz

Scientific and Common Name Index

Subject Index