 | |||
| |||
| |||
| |||
| |||
Our work Our outputs Themes News Partners Home |
| The latest news from AFGRP
This is the page you should keep coming back to. News about the latest reports and photos from existing projects will be linked from here. Current meetings, new projects and our new page with other little snippets relevant to aquatic developmental research are also linked here. 14th May 2004. Rice fish display and weekend of activities at Eden Live AFGRP will be holding a weekend of music, drama and food at the Eden Project over the 2004 August Bank Holiday weekend (26-29th). In addition we have been working with the Eden Project to develop a rice-fish exhibit to help celebrate International Year of Rice within the Humid Tropic Biome on-site in Cornwall. The display will demonstrate the role that fish play in rice fields as part of both integrated pest management (IPM) and decentralised seed production systems being developed in Bangladesh. For more information click here 23rd March 2004. Funding opportunities for dissemination of key programme outputs and assessment of the impact of our research. Apply before 30th May 2004 Can you think outside the box? If you are interested in extending the reach of AFGRP outcomes, please contact the programme manager in the first instance. The programme has three main themes covering a substantial body of existing research: Seed Production; Aquatic Animal Health Management; and Aquaculture Systems. The latter includes environment, markets and links with the wider ecological, social and political context. 22nd August 2003. Findings from Seed Quality Project focus new research Results from project R7052 (Fish Seed Quality) have highlighted that the level of nutrients in the culture system is the most important factor in the growth of young Nile tilapia in smallholders' systems. The results, published in the journal Aquaculture, show that there is no advantage in stocking mono-sex tilapia when considering total production over a grow-out period of five months given the level of nutirent inputs generally used in such systemns. Production from mixed-sex stocks is similar in total quantity of fish produced to that of mono-sex stocks, although the consistency of size is less. In a parallel study, the researchers observed that both mixed- and mono-sex stocks survived better during grow-out production if they had been nursed for longer periods, although the mono-sex stocks reached a larger final size as they did not start reproducing. These results and others from the Fish Seed Quality project have fed into a new project looking at decentralised seed production systems. To find out more about project R7052, click here. Information about the new work on decentralised seed, will be posted shortly. 25th March 2003. Three new projects funded - R8286, R8287 and R8288 AFGRP is pleased to announce the funding of three new projects covering marketing issues in freshwater aquaculture in South and Southeast Asia (focussing in Bangladesh), peri-urban aquaculture in Africa and brackishwater aquaculture in the Philippines.To view summaries for these projects, click here 1st March 2003. New 'Gender Issues in Aquaculture' mini-site launched Outputs from the Women in Aquaculture project, funded by APEC, and the Gender-responsive Aquaculture Policy workshop, funded by DFID, are now published on their own mini-site. The site also provides links to other key gender references. If you wish to contribute to this site, please contact us here at afgrp@stir.ac.uk. To view Gender Issues in Aquaculture mini-site, click here 11th February 2003. Bibliography of DFID Fisheries Research Programmes from 1990 to 2001 available The Bibliography of DFID Fisheries Research Programmes from 1990 to 2001 contains all published outputs from the: Aquaculture and Fish Genetics Research Programme; the Fisheries Management Science Programme; and the Post-harvest Fisheries Research Programme. Please note that it does not contain references to reports or working papers.To view more information on the Bibliography and to download a copy, please click here. A limited number of hard copies are also available from the AFGRP office at the University of Stirling. To view previous news articles click here, just in case you missed anything. |
   |
| The Aquaculture and Fish Genetics Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) is managed by the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland. FK9 4LA. UK. Tel: +44 1786 467900 Fax: +44 1786 451462 e-mail: afgrp@stir.ac.uk |