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Grouper Culture - A New Venture for Indian Aqua Farmers

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Title Grouper Culture - A New Venture for Indian Aqua Farmers
 
Creator Megarajan, Sekhar
Ranjan, Ritesh
Xavier, Biji
Edward, Loveson
Dash, Biswajit
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
 
Subject Aquaculture
Groupers
 
Description Groupers are carnivorous reef fishes; belonging to
the subfamily Epinephelinae with 15 genera and 159
species. They are available globally but are predominant
in the tropical and sub-tropical waters including the Indo-
Pacific region (110 species), the East Atlantic and
Mediterranean regions (14 species) and the inter-tropical
American zone (35 species) (Pierre et al., 2007). They
mainly inhabit coral reefs, rocky areas, sea grass bed
and estuaries. Groupers are popular carnivorous fishes
with a high market demand in many parts of the world
and form the mainstay in the world Live Reef Food Fish
(LRFF) trade (Koesshendrajan & Hartono, 2006). In coral
reef ecosystems, a diversity of species is harvested
worldwide and the major groups of fishes traded include
snappers, surgeon fishes, unicorn fishes, parrot fishes,
emperor breams and groupers
 
Publisher Fishing chimes office, Visakhapatinam
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11577/1/Fishing%20Chimes_Sekar%20Megarajan_2017.pdf
Megarajan, Sekhar and Ranjan, Ritesh and Xavier, Biji and Edward, Loveson and Dash, Biswajit and Ghosh, Shubhadeep (2015) Grouper Culture - A New Venture for Indian Aqua Farmers. Fishing Chimes, 35 (9). pp. 46-49.