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Reactive Nitrogen in Coastal and Marine Waters of India and Its Relationship With Marine Aquaculture

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Title Reactive Nitrogen in Coastal
and Marine Waters of India and
Its Relationship With Marine
Aquaculture
 
Creator Prema, D
Singh, V V
Jeyabaskaran, R
Kripa, V
 
Subject Aquaculture
 
Description India is bordered in the soutii, south-west, and south-east with Indian Ocean, Arabian
Sea (AS), and the Bay of Bengal (BOB), respectively. Indian coast is 7517 km long
comprising 5423 km in the peninsular India and 2094 km in Andaman and Nicobar, and
Lakshadweep Islands. The Indian exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is spread in
2.02 million sq km (0.86 million sq km in west coast, 0.56 m illion sq km in east coast and
0.6 million sq km in Andaman and Nicobar Islands). The Indian marine environmentconsisting of adjoining coastal areas and EEZ directly sustains useful habitats and
suppons the livelihood of 3.9 million fishers. Nearly 25% of the country’s population
resides in these areas and about 340 communities are primarily occupied in marine and
coastal fisheries (MoEF, 2009; SACEP, 2014).
Nitrogen (N) exists in various chemical forms, produced by marine biota through
several chemical transformations during their growth and metabolism in the marine
environment. Nitrogen as N2 is generally unavailable in marine conditions and thereby,
the equilibrium of the processes of N2 fixation (conversion of atmospheric N2 to organic
nitrogen) and denitrification (conversion of nitrate to N2) decides the bioavailable nitrogen
supply and productivity (Gruber, 2008).
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2017
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/12471/1/Indian%20Nitrogen%20Assessment_2017_D%20Prema.pdf
Prema, D and Singh, V V and Jeyabaskaran, R and Kripa, V (2017) Reactive Nitrogen in Coastal and Marine Waters of India and Its Relationship With Marine Aquaculture. In: Indian Nitrogen Assessment. Elsevier, pp. 305-320. ISBN 9780128118368