Open AccessMONOCULTURE AND POLYCULTURE POND STUDIES WITH POMPANO ( Trachinotus carolinus ) AND PENAEID SHRIMP ( Penaeus aztecus, P. duorarum , AND P. setiferus ) IN ALABAMA, 1975–1977 1
Author(s) -
Tatum W. M.,
Trimble W. C.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meeting ‐ world mariculture society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1749-7345
pISSN - 0164-0399
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1978.tb00264.x
Subject(s) - polyculture , shrimp , monoculture , penaeus , biology , fishery , mariculture , zoology , stocking , agronomy , aquaculture , fish <actinopterygii>
Studies were conducted seasonally from 1975–1977 in 0.08 ha, brackish water ponds at the Claude Peteet Mariculture Center on monoculture of Florida pompano ( Trachinotus carolinus ), brown shrimp ( Penaeus aztecus ), and white shrimp ( P. setiferus ), and on polyculture of pompano with pink ( P. duorarum ) or brown shrimp. Three methods of stocking polyculture ponds were investigated. Pompano production from monoculture ponds manages eeasonally for 95 to 191 days averaged 564 kg/ha with mean survival of 42%, mean feed conversion of 3.0, and mean weight of 156 g. During one growing season in 1977, consecutive 75‐ to 81‐day crops of brown and white shrimp produced mean yields of 349 and 600 kg/ha, survivals of 69 and 96%, feed conversions of 4.0 and 2.3, and weights averaging 8.3 and 10.0 g, respectively. The optimal method of stocking polyculture ponds with pompano and shrimp produced mean yields of 593 and 222 kg/ha, survivals of 30 and 53%, feed conversion of 2.6, and weights averaging 185 and 13.5 g, respectively. Although one season's highest yield (949 kg/ha, mean) was from 2 successive crops of penaieds and the maximum yield of pompano (760 kg/ha) was in monoculture, polyculture of shrimp and pompano demonstrated both technical and economical potential.