Date:         Thu, 16 Mar 2000 04:42:52 +0100
Subject:      livestock-aquaculture with marine and/or brackish water
From:   cosmos@public1.wx.js.cn

Sam Levy (ardag-w11@ardag.ardom.co.il) asked
> 1. Could you comment on possible applications in marine and/or brackish
> water culture?  In particular, I was wondering if the use of digested
> material has been used in shrimp culture or in seawater fishponds (for
> example, mixed culture of Tilapia and grey mullets with a few predators to
> keep the Tilapia population numbers down to manageable size)?
>
> 2. Is the digested material appropriate for use in the culture of
> Artemia in hypersaline ponds?

Dear Friends:

Yes, I think so, and you can try.

Polyculture is practiced in brackish culture and mariculture in China. Although
it is incompatible to stock plankton feeders with carnivorous fish species, a
few predators can keep over population of tilapia. It is a mixed farming by
using prey predator relationship. In a broad sense, it is also called polyculture.

Best regards
Li Kangmin.