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Action Plan on seaweed exploitation, mariculture and utilization in India

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Title Action Plan on seaweed exploitation, mariculture and utilization in India
 
Creator Kaladharan, P
Kripa, V
Gopalakrishnan, A
 
Subject Seaweed
Mariculture
 
Description All macroscopic algae occurring in the marine,
coastal and brackish water habitats are termed as
seaweeds. They are valued commercially for their
polysaccharides deposited in the cell wall besides,
minerals, metabolites and nutraceuticals that can
be developed from them. Along the Indian coast,
844 species of marine algae comprising 216 species
of Chlorophyta, 191 species of Phaeophyta, 434
species of Rhodophyta and 3 species of Xanthophyta
are estimated. The seaweed resources surveys
carried out so far by the ICAR- CMFRI, Kochi; CSMCRI,
Bhavnagar and NIO, Goa in the intertidal and shallow
water areas of east and west coasts and
Lakshadweep and Andamans, estimated a total
standing crop of all the seaweeds in Indian waters
as more than 2,60,876 tonnes (wet weight).
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11947/1/MFIS-230_11.pdf
Kaladharan, P and Kripa, V and Gopalakrishnan, A (2016) Action Plan on seaweed exploitation, mariculture and utilization in India. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (230). pp. 29-32. ISSN 0254-380 X