Need for diversification of coastal aquaculture

Abstract

There is large potential for coastal aquaculture in the vast stretches of shallow coastal waters, creeks, bays lagoons and mudflats along the northeast coast of India comprising Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal. Considering the good prospects for ariculture along the Indian coasts, the Central Marine Research Institute has carried out research and developed techniques for the culture of several groups of cultivable organisms like prawns, finfishes, crabs, the molluscan shellfishes like oysters, mussels, clams, pearl oyster and cephalopods, holothurians and seaweeds.