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EFFECT OF STOCKING DENSITY OF RED HYBRID TILAPIA (OREOCHROMIS SP.) ON GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF JUVENILE TILAPIA AND SHRIMP (LITOPENAEUS VANNAMEI) IN POLYCULTURE.
Alejandro Macdonald-Vera1,2
Neil J. Duncan2
Wilfrido M. Contreras-Sánchez1
Kevin Fitzsimmons3
1Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Tabasco, Mexico. 2CIAD A.C. Unidad Mazatlan, Mexico.3University of Arizona, Arizona, Tucson, USA
• Shrimp Farming Industry in Mexico.– Industry is prospering.– Disease and pricing problems.– Inefficient farms stop
operating.– Over 5000 ha of shrimp ponds
unused.• Shrimp-Tilapia polyculture.
– Increased production.– Maintain or improve shrimp
survival.– Remove disease carriers from
system.
Alejandro Macdonald-Vera who completed the study.
Shrimp ponds in Mexico.
Methods• White shrimp – PL 16 - 0.004g
– Litopenaeus vannamei– Certified free from white spot
• Red hybrid tilapia - 4.6±0.9g– Genetic component of
Oreochromis mossambicus– All males (hormonal treatment)– Acclimatised to 35ppt sea water,
5ppt per day.• Pond preparation.
– Salinity range - 28 to 35 ppt– Temperature range - 16.2 to
25.6°CMosquito mesh divisions to make experimental enclosures
Pond preparation, ploughed and limed.
Methods experimental design
• 9 enclosures (7x30=210m2) in 3 blocks, A, B, C.• All enclosures stocked with 30 shrimp/m2
• Tilapia stocked at 3 densities, 0, 0.25, 0.5 fish/m2
to give the experimental groups T0, T0.25 and T0.5
Waterinlet.
outlet
10
20.5
30.25
40.25
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60.5
70.5
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Block ABlock BBlock C
Experimental pond set up.
Methods• Stocking
– Shrimp and tilapia were acclimatised and randomly stocked into each enclosure.
• Sampling.– Every 2 weeks.– 20 tilapia caught and weighed.– 30 shrimp weighed.
• Harvest.– Experiment lasted for 8 weeks.– All shrimp and tilapia were
harvested, counted and a random sample weighed.Sampling.
Stocking.
Results - Statistics• Weight data was not normal.
– Some shrimp weight distributions were highly skewed towards larger individuals.
– Some tilapia weight distributions had characteristics of a bimodal distribution, 23 to 42% maturing females were found during the harvest.
• 2 way Scheirer-Ray-Hare extension of the Kruskal-Wallis and the DUNNS test were used to compare weight distributions
• Survival distributions were normally distributed and were compared with ANOVA.
ExpectedNormal
VAR7
Upper Boundaries (x <= boundary)
No ofobs
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NEWVAR13Shapiro-Wilk W=.97111, p<.0110
Upper Boundaries (x <= boundary)
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ExpectedNormal
NEWVAR16Shapiro-Wilk W=.97691, p<.0002
Upper Boundaries (x <= boundary)
No
of o
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Tilapia distributions
Shrimp distribution
Results – Tilapia Growth.
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g)
No significant differences were observed for tilapia weights among treatments T0.25 and T0.5 or blocks A, B and C.
Results – Shrimp Growth.
No significant differences were observed among treatments T0, T0.25 and T0.5
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ght(
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Results – Shrimp Growth.
Significant differences (P<0.05) were observed among blocks A, B and C.
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ght(
g)Block A
Block B
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Results – Survival.
There were no significant differences among tilapia survivals.There were no significant differences among shrimp survivals fortreatments, T0, T0.25 and T0.5. There were significant differences (p<0.05) among shrimp survivals for blocks A, B and C.
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Conclusions• Stocking densities of 0, 0.25 and 0.5 fish/m2 did
not significantly affect growth or survival of juvenile shrimp and tilapia.
• Block or position in the pond did significantly affect (p<0.05) growth and survival of juvenile shrimp.
• These are encouraging results that suggest shrimp tilapia poly-culture has good potential for diversifying the Mexican shrimp culture industry and rehabilitating disused shrimp ponds.
Gracias CRSP
• Gabriela Velasco• Leonardo Ibarra• Rafael Guzman• Ricardo Alvarez
• Michael Achury• Noemi Garcia • Estela Rodriguez.
Juan Manuel Gonzalez and his family