Mapará and Amazon River prawn farming in multispace and multitrophic systems

• Grant number: 10/51271-6
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Partnership for Technological Innovation - PITE
• Duration: September 01, 2011 - March 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Fishery Resources and Fishery Engineering - Aquaculture
• Convênio/Acordo: Vale-FAPEMIG-FAPESPA
• Principal Investigator: Sergio Ricardo Batlouni
• Grantee: Sergio Ricardo Batlouni
• Host Institution: Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Host Company: Vale S/A
• City: Jaboticabal
• Associated scholarship(s): 11/18734-5 - Mapará and Amazon River prawn farming in multispace and multitrophic systems, BP.DR

Abstract

Sustainable systems for the production of mapará, Hypophtalmus spp, and amazon river prawn, Macrobrachium amazonicum, will be studied trough an ecosystem approach, as well as, innovative and novel methods will be developed and tested for assessment of the sustainability in aquaculture. We intend to investigate essential processes for the establishment of biomanipulation and evaluation of environmental sustainability in cultures, such as, the efficiency in the incorporation of nutrients, energy and mass balances, effluent eutrophying and greenhouse gases emission. In addition, it will be assessed the use of environmental, economic and social capital in aquaculture projects. In subproject I, the possibility of domestication, the cycle and reproductive performance of mapará reared in captive and in intercropping system with prawns in Amazonia will be assessed. For that, eight 80m² ponds will receive 800 amazon river prawn breeders (10/m2) that will occupy the bottom; and 160 mapará breeders (1/4 m2) that will occupy the water column. The following water parameters will be regularly recorded: temperature, transparency, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen and ammonia. The reproductive cycle of mapará will be determined by sampling every two months, where, 4 females and 4 males will be captured for blood sampling, ovaries and testes samplings, respectivelly, but also to record biometric data. It will be considered the gonado-somatic index (GSI), the condition factor K, morphometric characteristics of gonads and gonadal steroid levels. The reproductive performance of mapará will be assessed by inducing spawning with pituitary extract and GnRH. The prawn breeders will be evaluated every two months. At each prawns sampling populations (50 animals) in six ponds will be collected for reproductive cycle study. The animals will be measured and weighed, diagnosed according to sex and types. Females will be classified for the presence of eggs on the pleopods, the degree of ovarian maturation and eggs embryonic development. At the end of 18 months, ponds will be exhausted and all survivors will be counted and analyzed according to the criteria above. In subproject II the reproductive biology of mapará in natural environment will be assessed. For this, the animals will be collected every two months on the Tocantins River for a period of 24 months. At the time of collection, the following parameters will be measured: water temperature, transparency, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen and ammonia. The procedures to determine the reproductive cycle of animals will be exactly the same as described for the sub-project I. At the end of the analysis, the data obtained in captivity will be compared with those obtained in a natural environment for evaluation of the physiological adaptations of the species in captivity, and its possible impacts on their reproductive performance. In the subproject III, the productivity, cost and sustainability of multitrophic and multispace production systems, involving the production of the amazon river prawn and mapará will be evaluated. 12 rectangular ponds with 0.01 ha and average depth of 1 m will be used. The experiment will be completely randomized with four treatments (combination of species) and three replications. The treatments will include: stocking 30 prawns/m2; 30 prawns /m2 + 0,5 maparás/m2; 30 prawns/ m2 + 1 mapará/m2 and 1mapará/2. Samples of pond water and effluent will be collected to determine the hydrological and limnological variables of interest for aquaculture and sustainability. The greenhouse gases will be measured in all experimental units. After the harvest for each treatment, the mass and energy production will be determined for each system, as well as the morphological response of animals to treatments. Also, the production costs, economic viability, and economic, social and environmental indicators will be determined. The carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus balance and energy in systems will also be determined to provide input for the practice of biomanipulation. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GONCALVES, LIZIANE AMARAL B.; SILVA, GICELLE M. F.; VIANA, IVANA KERLY S.; HAINFELLNER, PATRICK; FERREIRA, MARIA AUXILIADORA P.; BATLOUNI, SERGIO R.; ROCHA, ROSSINEIDE M.. Testicular structure and development of germ cells of Hypophthalmus marginatus Valenciennes 1840 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae). Animal Reproduction Science, v. 211, DEC 2019. (10/51271-6)

HAINFELLNER, PATRICK; KURADOMI, RAFAEL YUTAKA; DE SOUZA, THIAGO GONCALVES; SATO, RAFAEL TOMODA; FIGUEIREDO-ARIKI, DANIEL GUIMARAES; DE FREITAS, GUILHERME ANTONIO; QUEIROZ, LUCIANO; VALENTI, WAGNER C.; VALENTI, PATRICIA MORAES; GE, WEI; et al. Reproductive cycle of the Amazonian planktivorous catfish Hypophthalmus marginatus (Siluriformes, Pimelodidae). AQUACULTURE RESEARCH, v. 50, n. 11, AUG 2019. (10/51271-6)

FLICKINGER, DALLAS L.; DANTAS, DANIELA P.; PROENCA, DANILO C.; DAVID, FERNANDA S.; VALENTI, WAGNER C.. Phosphorus in the culture of the Amazon river prawn (Macrobrachium amazonicum) and tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) farmed in monoculture and in integrated multitrophic systems. JOURNAL OF THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY, v. 51, n. 4, NOV 2019. (10/51271-6)

DANTAS, DANIELA P.; FLICKINGER, DALLAS L.; COSTA, GELCIRENE A.; BATLOUNI, SERGIO R.; MORAES-VALENTI, PATRICIA; VALENTI, WAGNER C.. Technical feasibility of integrating Amazon river prawn culture during the first phase of tambaqui grow-out in stagnant ponds, using nutrient-rich water. Aquaculture, v. 516, FEB 1 2020. (10/51271-6)

MEDEIROS, MATEUS V.; AUBIN, JOEL; CAMARGO, ANTONIO F. M.. Life cycle assessment of fish and prawn production: Comparison of monoculture and polyculture freshwater systems in Brazil. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, v. 156, p. 528-537, JUL 10 2017. (10/51271-6)

FRANCHINI, ARIEL C.; COSTA, GELCIRENE A.; PEREIRA, STEFANY A.; VALENTI, WAGNER C.; MORAES-VALENTI, PATRICIA. Improving production and diet assimilation in fish-prawn integrated aquaculture, using iliophagus species. Aquaculture, v. 521, MAY 15 2020. (10/51271-6)

DANTAS, DANIELA P.; FLICKINGER, DALLAS L.; COSTA, GELCIRENE A.; MORAES-VALENTI, PATRICIA; VALENTI, WAGNER C.. Economic effects of production scale, use of agricultural greenhouses, and integration of tropical aquaculture species when farming in a subtropical climate. AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL, JAN 2022. (10/51271-6)

FLICKINGER, DALLAS L.; COSTA, GELCIRENE A.; DANTAS, DANIELA P.; PROENCA, DANILO C.; DAVID, FERNANDA S.; DURBOROW, ROBERT M.; MORAES-VALENTI, PATRICIA; VALENTI, WAGNER C.. The budget of carbon in the farming of the Amazon river prawn and tambaqui fish in earthen pond monoculture and integrated multitrophic systems. AQUACULTURE REPORTS, v. 17, JUL 2020. (10/51271-6)