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    Prawn sandwich destroys fish nurseries: expert

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    April 11, 2008
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    Agence France-Presse (AFP)
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    BW20080411_S1/11
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    She helped turn many of the world's prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life's work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipina zoologist, whose research on breeding the black tiger prawn became a manual that revolutionized the aquaculture industry, pointed at 66 hectares (163 acres) of brackish water fishponds at the bottom of a windy bluff in this seaside town south of Manila. Despite cheap government loans and generous land leases in the 1970s, prawn culture failed to reach its full potential in the Philippines, where the ponds turned out to be better suited for growing milkfish, said Ms. Primavera of the Philippines-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center.
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    Prawn sandwich destroys fish nurseries: expert. (2008, April 11-12). BusinessWorld, p. S1/11.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/3998
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    Fish; Shrimp culture; Zoologists; Research; Breeding; Aquaculture; Brackishwater aquaculture; Fish ponds; Mangroves; Marine ecology; Ground water; Governments; Milkfish culture; Marine ecologists; Environmental degradation; Mangrove conservation; Botanists; Rare species; Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC); University of Queensland; University of Brussels; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Primavera, Jurgenne; Duke, Norman; Carpenter, Kent; de los Reyes, Jessie; Koedam, Nico
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