This work was developed aiming to determine the quantity of fish and the time of entry of fingerlings in areas that provide the best productivities in the combination of irrigate rice and fish. The experiments were carried out on growing seasons 2001/02 and 2002/03, in the experimental design of randomized complete block with three replications, in trifactorial scheme (year x quantity x time), with three quantities of fish: D0= without fingerlings, D1=3000 fingerlings ha-1 and D2=6000 fingerlings ha-1 and three times of entry of fish: E1= seeding, E2= 20 days after seeding and E3= after harvest. The species utilized were: common, grass, silver, big head carps and silver catfish, in rates of 60, 20, 5, 5 and 10%, respectively. Rice in pre-germinate system and IRGA 419 cultivar, was utilized with the quantity of 120kg ha-1 of seeds. The productivity of grains in this experiment was 6372kg ha-1, and it was not affected by the presence of fishes. The productivity of fishes was not influenced by the quantities neither by the times of entry of fingerlings in the area, with a production of 404kg ha-1 of fishes. It was possible to verify that the greatest taxes of survival occurred when the entry of fishes was after harvest.
rice-fish culture; sustainable management; combine of rice and fishes
