Strategies to enhance the competitiveness of semi-intensive aquaculture systems in costal earth ponds: the organic aquaculture approach

Earthen ponds are the main production system for European seabass (<i>Dicentrarchus labrax</i>) and gilthead seabream (<i>Sparus aurata</i>) in Portugal and in Southern Spain. Production costs in this low productivity farming system are higher compared to intensive cage farms...

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Main Authors: Manuel Sardinha, Sofia Engrola, Paulo Gray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fmars.2014.02.00116/full