{"id":5052,"date":"2004-01-28T22:15:41","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T06:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/28\/5052\/"},"modified":"2004-01-28T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T06:15:41","slug":"american-tilapia-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"American Tilapia Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a cheap farmable eating-fish.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nI think it may be possible to grow them in rice paddies?  I&#8217;m still looking into it.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nSort of like a multi-phylum Companion Planting.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Aha- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ag.auburn.edu\/icaae\/introrice.htm\">FISH-RICE CULTURE<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve noticed that is usually considered a disadvantage of this system, which actually is a bonus- you can&#8217;t use pesticides on the rice when you grow it concurrently with tilapia.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>In an article from the The lsraeli Joumal of Aquaculture &#8211; Bamidgeh 50(1), 1998, 33-42:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote><p>CULTURE OF MACROBRACHIUM ROSENBERGII<br \/>\nIN MONOCULTURE AND POLYCULTURE<br \/>\nWITH OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS IN PADDIES IN EGYPT<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>They  found that a high density (in 7,200 m\u00b2 paddies) prawn polyculture with the rice gave a higher return than a prawn\/tilapia\/rice polyculture or the control rice monoculture.  Their most successful density:  20,000 prawn juveniles per hectareWeb link of note: <a HREF='http:\/\/ag.arizona.edu\/azaqua\/ata.html'>American Tilapia Association<\/a><br \/>\n(At http:\/\/ag.arizona.edu\/azaqua\/ata.html)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a cheap farmable eating-fish. I think it may be possible to grow them in rice paddies? I&#8217;m still looking into it. Sort of like a multi-phylum Companion Planting. Aha- FISH-RICE CULTURE One thing I&#8217;ve noticed that is usually considered a disadvantage of this system, which actually is a bonus- you can&#8217;t use pesticides on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}