Circa, Antonio V. creator Edwards, Peter Chairperson Wee, Kok Leong Examination Committee Lin, Chang Kwei Examination Committee US - ASEAN Scholarship Donor text series technical report th Bangkok Asian Institute of Technology 1987 continuing eng 65 p. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of utilizing bagasse pith (sieved bagasse ) as a fish pond input through nutrient supplementation. The treatments involved four bagasse loadings (0, 50, 100, 150 kg dry matter/ha/day) and four nitrogen a nd phosphorus supplementation rates with a 10:1 ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus ( 0:0, 2:0.2, 4:0.4, 6 kg nitrogen: 0 .6 kg phosphorus (as P205 ) / ha/day ) . Poor fish yields were obtained inspite of high survival rates in treatments with bagasse alone at all loading rates. The highest net extrapolated yield from these treatments of 505 kg/ha/yr was obtained with the 10 0 kg dry matte r/ha/day loading. Treatments with nitrogen and phosphorus a lone incurred early total fish mortality at the medium and highest rates, possibly due to rise in pH. Yields with nutrient-supplemented bagasse demon started promising results with net extrapolated yields of 2030, 1969 , 1968, 1947, a nd 1933 kg/ha/yr from the 150 and 4: 0.4, JOO and 2:0.2 , 100 and 4:0.4 , 150 and 2:0.2 and 100 kg dry matter bagasse/ ha/day and 6 kg nitrogen:0.6 kg phosphorus/ha/day treatments, respectively. Survival rates in these treatments ranged from 90-1 00%. Water quality in all bagasse loadings deteriorated with time regardless of nitrogen a nd phosphorus supplementation l eve ls and at an increasing rate as the loading was increased. The 1 00 kg dry matter/ ha/day loading gave t h e best yields compare d to other loading s , at all l eve l s of nutrient supplementation, while the 2 legnitrogen:0. 2 kg phosphorus/ha/day supplementation gave the best results compared to other nutrient l eve l s at all bagasse loadings. The optimum bagasse dry matter loading and nutrient supplementation rates at steady-state conditions ranged from 50-100 kg dry matter bagasse/ha/day a nd 2:0.2-4 kg : 0 .4 kg phosphorus/ha/day. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1987 Waste products as feed Fish-culture Bagasse Asian Institute of Technology. http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B19096 http://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B19096 110920 20260817171009.0