The Australian Yabby Farmer by Mosig
Author: John Mosig
First Published: 1995, extensively revised 2nd edition 2000.
From the back cover: This extensively revised edition of Australian Yabby Farmer provides a grounding in the basic principles of aquaculture and reflects the considerable advances in aquaculture technology over the last few years.
This book presents the basic information on the Yabby, its habitat, its health and nutriution requirements. The book covers pond management, production systems, equipment, harvesting, post harvest handling and marketing to the end product. It also has sections on the farming of those other freshwater crayfish including marron and red claw and contains a number of useful appendices.
Author John Mosig shares his experience of nearly 20 years, giving budding yabby farmers an insight into how they can run a yabby venture while developing their own aquaculture skills and gaining experience in fish husbandry. Practising crayfish farmers might find out how they can do some things better too.
Go Yabbying!
About the Author: John Mosig has been involved in commercial warmwater aquaculture since 1979. His experience includes breeding and growing yellowbelly, catfish, silver perch and of course yabbies. He has written several publication on aquaculture and is a regular contributor to the national aquaculture magazine Austasia Aquaculture. He currently presents the warmwater aquaculture training program delivered through northern melbourne institute of TAFE. His qualification for this are that there isnt a mistake in aquaculture that he hasnt made!
