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Seasonal variation in the water quality and chlorophyll a of semi-intensive shrimp ponds in a subtropical environment

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Twelve water quality variables were measured at different intervals (biweekly and twice a week) in two ponds during two consecutive production cycles in a semi-intensive shrimp farm on the Northwest coast of Mexico. The average harvest during dry season (March–July, a 95 days period) was 1822 kg ha-1, with an average size of 16.0 g; while the harvest in the rainy season (August–January, a 165-day period) was 2125 kg ha-1, with an average size of 11.9 g. In the rainy season, dissolved oxygen concentration tended to decrease as the feeding rates and shrimp and phytoplankton biomass were increasing until harvest. During both culture cycles, mean values of temperature, salinity and ammonium in ponds were not significantly different from those in inlet water, whereas pH levels in ponds were higher than in incoming water.

Nitrogen nutrients, pH and particulate organic matter levels in ponds and inlet water did not exhibit seasonal differences; the better yield and feed conversion obtained during rainy season reflect the fact that temperature and mean chlorophyll a were higher during the rainy than in the dry season; salinity and total suspended solids were lower during the dry than in the rainy season. The mean levels of the water quality variables in the two ponds were not significantly different in both grow out cycles. Therefore, the differences in productivity between ponds cannot be explained by the water quality.

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    S. R. Guerrero-galván & A.C. Ruiz-fernández

  2. Estación Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 811, Mazatlán, 82000, Sinaloa, México

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  3. Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Clementina S.C.L., Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

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Guerrero-galván, S.R., Páez-osuna, F., Ruiz-fernández, A. et al. Seasonal variation in the water quality and chlorophyll a of semi-intensive shrimp ponds in a subtropical environment. Hydrobiologia 391, 33–45 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003590625379

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