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PT J
TI Evaluation of floating cages as an experimental tool for marine shrimp culture studies under practical earthen pond conditions
BT 
AF CHIM, Liet
   CASTEX, Mathieu
   PHAM, Dominique
   BRUN, Pierre
   LEMAIRE, Pierrette
   WABETE, Nelly
   SCHMIDELY, P
   MARIOJOULS, C
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:1;6:1;7:2;8:2;
FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCOP-AQNC;2:PDG-DOP-DCOP-AQNC;3:PDG-DOP-DCOP-AQNC;4:PDG-DOP-DCOP-AQNC;5:PDG-DOP-DCOP-AQNC;6:PDG-DOP-DCOP-AQNC;7:;8:;
C1 IFREMER, Dept Aquaculture Nouvelle Caledonie, Noumea, New Caledonia.
   AgroParisTech, F-75321 Paris 5, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   AGROPARISTECH, FRANCE
SI SAINT VINCENT
SE PDG-DOP-DCOP-AQNC
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
IF 1.678
TC 6
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4363.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Statistical power;Replicates;Pond experimentation;Floating cages;Litopenaeus stylirostris
AB The New Caledonia blue shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris is commercially produced under semi-intensive rearing conditions. The size of the farming earthen ponds (5–10 ha) and the subsequent production constraints make it difficult to use them as experimental units for random experiments. Moreover, since every pond has its own characteristics, ponds' effects cannot be ruled out, thus making it hard to define true replicates. In order to design future experiments under conditions resembling those used in production, we evaluated the possible use of floating cages as experimental units with the aim of assessing treatment effects with a reasonable statistical power. To this end, two sets of floating cages were placed respectively in two different ponds in a commercial farm. In both cases the zootechnical conditions in the cages were similar in post-larvae origin, management, and diet and feeding regime.  The aim of the study was to evaluate on a technical basis the possibility of rearing shrimps in floating cages set up in earthen ponds and to assess this method from a statistical standpoint. Shrimps reared in and outside the cages showed comparable growth and survival rates. The variability in the zootechnical parameters between cages, expressed as the estimated coefficient of variation (CV) for survival rate, total final biomass (g), final body weight (g), daily increment in body weight (g day− 1) and FCR were 11.0, 13.7, 4.4, 5.4, and 7.0%, respectively. On the basis of these figures, we calculated for a given statistical power (80%) the number of replicates (cages) that would be required to reveal significant differences between two treatments, at a 5% level of significance. We found that for expected differences of 20% from the control mean, 3 and 6 floating cages per treatment would be reasonable to determine statistical differences for growth parameters and survival rate, respectively. Moreover, we showed a significant pond effect in regard to survival and growth between the two sets of cages. These results illustrated the within-farm variability among the ponds, and confirmed that the specific characteristics of each pond from the same farm make it difficult to use the ponds themselves as experimental units.  The study demonstrates that rearing in floating cages is an economical, powerful and sensitive experimental tool for shrimp culture studies specifically carried out under conditions close to semi-intensive production.
PY 2008
PD JUN
SO Aquaculture
SN 0044-8486
PU Elsevier
VL 279
IS 1-4
UT 000257370300012
BP 63
EP 69
DI 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2008.03.053
ID 4363
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