Open AccessINDUCED FEEDING AND GROWTH ENHANCEMENT OF BLACK DRUM WHEN CULTURED WITH FLORIDA POMPANO AND WITH STRIPED MULLET
Author(s) -
Rossberg Karen S.,
Strawn R. Kirk
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
proceedings of the world mariculture society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1749-7345
pISSN - 0748-3260
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1980.tb00117.x
Subject(s) - monoculture , mugil , polyculture , mullet , drum , fishery , biology , zoology , fish <actinopterygii> , aquaculture , agronomy , engineering , mechanical engineering
Age O black drum ( Pogonias cromis ) were stocked in polyculture with age O Florida pompano ( Trachinotus carolinus ); age O striped mullet ( Mugil cephalus ); and in monoculture in 0.1 ha flow‐through ponds. Densities were 5,000 fish/ha each for Florida pompano and black drum and 500 fish/ha for striped mullet. Pompano were harvested after 5 months of culture leaving black drum counterparts to continue in monoculture. After approximately 278 days, production of drum was 66% greater when initially grown with pompano for 145 days than for those maintained in monoculture throughout the study. The small number of striped mullet served as feeding stimuli for black drum, thus improving production 40% over drum kept in monoculture.