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Seed production and farming of Indian pearl oyster Pinctada fucata- Winter School on Recent Advances in Breeding and Larviculture of Marine Finfish and Shellfish

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Title Seed production and farming of Indian pearl oyster Pinctada fucata- Winter School on Recent Advances in Breeding and Larviculture of Marine Finfish and Shellfish
 
Creator Jagadis, I
 
Subject Farming/Culture
Pearl oyster
 
Description Indian pearl oyster belonging to the Genus Pinctada occurs in the two Gulf zones of India ie., Gulf of Kutch in
Gujarat and Gulf of Mannar in Tamil Nadu. Commercial fishery existed in GoM till 1961 and then has gone into a
dormant period due to many reasons including insignificant natural settlement of spat in the pearl beds (‘paars’) of Gulf
of Mannar. To sustain a pearl culture industry, a steady supply of pearl oyster seed and farming it to mother oysters is
a pre requisite. Large scale collection of pearl oyster spats either by using spat collectors or from their natural beds
was not always found dependable owing to the irregular spat fall. Hence, hatchery production of pearl oyster seed
and mother oyster culture has become an essential aspect as far as pearl culture is concerned. The following account
details the basic hatchery requirement, broodstock maintenance and spawning and hatchery production of spats of
Pinctada fucata and the methods of farming the spats for mother oyster development.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 2009
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5372/1/33.pdf
Jagadis, I (2009) Seed production and farming of Indian pearl oyster Pinctada fucata- Winter School on Recent Advances in Breeding and Larviculture of Marine Finfish and Shellfish. [Teaching Resource]