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Indian experience of large scale cultured marine pearl production using Pinctada fucata (Gould) from southeast coast of India: A critical review

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Title Indian experience of large scale
cultured marine pearl production
using Pinctada fucata (Gould) from
southeast coast of India: A critical
review
 
Creator Jagadis, I
Victor, A C C
Ignatius, Boby
Kandasamy, D
Chellam, A
 
Subject Pearl oyster
 
Description In India, research on marine pearl culture was started in
1972 and the first cultured marine pearl from Pinctada
fucata was rolled out a year later through the earnest
efforts of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi
(CMFRI) at its Tuticorin Research Centre. Subsequently,
improvements of the technology were made by various
scientists involved at different centres of CMFRI focussing
on different issues of marine pearl culture. Information on
different aspects of marine pearl culture such as surveys for
stock position, ecology of pearl beds, small scale
experimental culture of mother oysters, surgical nucleation
and spherical pearl and designer pearl production (‘mabe’)
has already been published in various sources including few
instances of technology transfers to entrepreneurs/fisher
folk. Though, the experimental results were encouraging,
anticipated technology transfer did not take place
subsequently. Hence a large scale marine pearl culture
demonstration was carried out and viability of the
technology was redemonstrated at the Regional centre of
CMFRI, Mandapam Camp during 1997 - 2003 through an
ICAR Revolving Fund Project which resulted in wealth of
information regarding different aspects of marine pearl
culture.
In the present account, the lessons learnt based on the
published information as well as the data (unpublished)
obtained in the large scale culture are analysed and classified
under the critical activities of pearl culture and presented in the form of a ‘non systematic critical review’ essentially to arrive at
the status of marine pearl culture in India.
 
Publisher MBAI, Cochin-14
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10739/1/5.%20JMBAI%2057-2%20ART9.pdf
Jagadis, I and Victor, A C C and Ignatius, Boby and Kandasamy, D and Chellam, A (2015) Indian experience of large scale cultured marine pearl production using Pinctada fucata (Gould) from southeast coast of India: A critical review. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 57 (2). pp. 58-64. ISSN 2321-7898