Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)

Latin America has a high diversity of Macrobrachium prawns, some of them with commercial interest. Among them, the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum is a large prawn of the western coast with commercial value due to its size and taste, but it has been extensively subjected to fishery explo...

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Autores principales:	García-Guerrero,Marcelo, de los Santos Romero,Rodolfo, Vega-Villasante,Fernando, Cortes-Jacinto,Edilmar
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Escuela de Ciencias del Mar 2015
Materias:	Macrobrachium americanum river prawn production management aquaculture
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-560X20150005000022016-10-25Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)García-Guerrero,Marcelode los Santos Romero,RodolfoVega-Villasante,FernandoCortes-Jacinto,Edilmar Macrobrachium americanum river prawn production management aquaculture Latin America has a high diversity of Macrobrachium prawns, some of them with commercial interest. Among them, the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum is a large prawn of the western coast with commercial value due to its size and taste, but it has been extensively subjected to fishery exploitation, leading to population decline. Cultivation is an option for commercial production and conservation. Some research focused on domestication has been performed. Here, we revise the status of that research and discuss possibilities for sustainable freshwater prawn aquaculture in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Escuela de Ciencias del MarLatin american journal of aquatic research v.43 n.5 20152015-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-560X2015000500002en10.3856/vol43-issue5-fulltext-2
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spellingShingle	Macrobrachium americanum river prawn production management aquaculture García-Guerrero,Marcelo de los Santos Romero,Rodolfo Vega-Villasante,Fernando Cortes-Jacinto,Edilmar Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)
description	Latin America has a high diversity of Macrobrachium prawns, some of them with commercial interest. Among them, the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum is a large prawn of the western coast with commercial value due to its size and taste, but it has been extensively subjected to fishery exploitation, leading to population decline. Cultivation is an option for commercial production and conservation. Some research focused on domestication has been performed. Here, we revise the status of that research and discuss possibilities for sustainable freshwater prawn aquaculture in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America.
author	García-Guerrero,Marcelo de los Santos Romero,Rodolfo Vega-Villasante,Fernando Cortes-Jacinto,Edilmar
author_facet	García-Guerrero,Marcelo de los Santos Romero,Rodolfo Vega-Villasante,Fernando Cortes-Jacinto,Edilmar
author_sort	García-Guerrero,Marcelo
title	Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)
title_short	Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)
title_full	Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)
title_fullStr	Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)
title_full_unstemmed	Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)
title_sort	conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn macrobrachium americanum (bate, 1868)
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Escuela de Ciencias del Mar
publishDate	2015
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Conservation and aquaculture of native freshwater prawns: the case of the cauque river prawn Macrobrachium americanum (Bate, 1868)

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