Andreu Rico, Trần Minh Phú, Kriengkrai Satapornvanit, Min Jiang et al.
Antimicrobials, parasiticides, feed additives and probiotics are used in Asian aquaculture to improve the health status of the cultured organisms and to prevent or treat disease outbreaks. Detailed information on the use of such chemicals in Asian aquaculture is limited, but of crucial importance fo...
Andreu Rico, Kriengkrai Satapornvanit, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, Min Jiang et al.
Abstract Over the past few decades, Asian aquaculture production has intensified rapidly through the adoption of technological advances, and the use of a wide array of chemical and biological products to control sediment and water quality and to treat and prevent disease outbreaks. The use of chemic...
Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Ben Belton, Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Andreu Rico
Food production is a major driver of global environmental change and the overshoot of planetary sustainability boundaries. Greater affluence in developing nations and human population growth are also increasing demand for all foods, and for animal proteins in particular. Consequently, a growing body...
Hazrat Ali, Andreu Rico, Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Ben Belton
The aim of this study is to describe current chemical use practices in the aquaculture sector of Bangladesh and to identify the factors that influence them. A survey on the use of chemical and biological products was conducted between November 2011 and June 2012 using structured questionnaires admin...
Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Andreu Rico, Wenbo Zhang, Sk. Ahmad-Al-Nahid et al.
We investigated aquaculture production of Asian tiger shrimp, whiteleg shrimp, giant river prawn, tilapia, and pangasius catfish in Bangladesh, China, Thailand, and Vietnam by using life cycle assessments (LCAs), with the purpose of evaluating the comparative eco-efficiency of producing different aq...
Kizar Ahmed Sumon, Andreu Rico, M.M.S. ter Horst, Paul J. Van den Brink et al.
The objectives of the current study were to determine the occupational health hazards posed by the application of pesticides in rice-prawn concurrent systems of south-west Bangladesh and to assess their potential risks for the aquatic ecosystems that support the culture of freshwater prawns (Macrobr...
Hazrat Ali, Muhammad Meezanur Rahman, Andreu Rico, Ahmed Jaman et al.
) aquaculture production in Bangladesh. This study provides an assessment of shrimp and prawn diseases/syndromes, health management practices, and occupational health hazards associated with the handling of chemical and biological products to prevent and treat shrimp and prawn diseases. A survey was...
Shirin Shahbaz-Gahroee, Jaber Aazami, Ali Aghamohammadi, Andreu Rico et al.
This study investigates length-mass relationships for 17 families of freshwater macroinvertebrates collected in the Choghakhor Wetland (Central Iran). Body length, head width, distance between eyes and mass (dry weight and wet weight) were used to estimate biomass with linear, log-linear and exponen...
Andreu Rico
One of the major constraints for the development and expansion of the Asian aquaculture industry has been the proliferation of disease outbreaks. To overcome this issue, a wide range of veterinary medicines including antibiotics, parasiticides and medical disinfectants have been recently developed. ...