Aquaculture Pond Fertilization: Impacts of Nutrient Input on Production

Contributors vii

Preface ix

Section 1: General Fertilization Concepts 1

Chapter 1 Nutrient Cycling 3
Claude E. Boyd

Chapter 2 Pond Ecology 23
Ana Milstein

Chapter 3 Organic and Inorganic Fertilization 33
Richard W. Soderberg

Chapter 4 Water Quality and Pond Fertilization 47
laude E. Boyd

Chapter 5 Environmental Issues in Pond Fertilization 65
Claude E. Boyd and Li Li

Chapter 6 Controlling Plant Pests before Fertilization 73
Jimmy L. Avery

Section 2: Management Approaches to Pond Fertilization 93

Chapter 7 Management Strategy 1: Manipulation of Pond Nutrient Ratios 95
Jian G. Qin

Chapter 8 Management Strategy 2: The Algal Bioassay Fertilization Strategy—An Ecological Approach for Efficient Pond Fertilization 111
Christopher F. Knud-Hansen

Chapter 9 Management Strategy 3: Fixed-Rate Fertilizer Applications 129
Charles C. Mischke

Section 3: Common Fertilization Practices Currently Used for Production of Selected Species under Various Culture Conditions 135

Chapter 10 Channel Catfish Pond Fertilization 137
Charles C. Mischke

Chapter 11 Walleye and Yellow Perch Pond Fertilization 147
Christopher F. Hartleb, J. Alan Johnson, and James A. Held

Chapter 12 Some Principles of Pond Fertilization for Nile Tilapia Using Organic and Inorganic Inputs 163
James S. Diana

Chapter 13 Fertilizing Sunshine Bass Production Ponds 179
Gerald M. Ludwig

Chapter 14 Challenges to the Intensification of Largemouth Bass Culture 197
Shawn D. Coyle, Gerald Kurten, Steve Marple, and James H. Tidwell

Chapter 15 Baitfish Pond Fertilization 217
Nathan Stone

Chapter 16 Carp Pond Fertilization 235
Debajyoti Chakrabarty and Sanjib Kumar Das

Chapter 17 Sportfish Pond Fertilization 245
J. Wesley Neal and Robert Kr¨oger

Chapter 18 Fertilization of Marine Finfish Nursery Ponds for Aquaculture Production 259
Charles R. Weirich and Jesse A. Chappell

Index 277

Color plates appear between pages 134 and 135.