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Culture Techniques of Marine Copepods

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Title Culture Techniques of Marine Copepods
 
Creator Santhosh, B
Anil, M K
Muhammed Anzeer, F
Aneesh, K S
Abraham, Mijo V
Gopakumar, G
George, Rani Mary
Gopalakrishnan, A
Unnikrishnan, C
 
Subject CMFRI Books
Copepods
Live Feed Culture
 
Description In recent years, marine finfish resources have been stagnating or showing a declining
trend. It is generally accepted that mariculture of suitable marine finfishes is the only
option to meet the increasing demand for fish in the years to come. In this context, the
availability of seed is the major issue and the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research
Institute has been intensifying its research in the recent past on the seed production
of high value finfishes which are suitable for mariculture. Already technologies for
commercial seed production of cobia (Rachycentron canadum) and silver pompano
(Trachinotus blochii) have been standardised. One of the major hurdles for the seed
production of many lucrative high value finfishes is the lack of proper technologies
for mass production of suitable live feeds to initiate the first feeding of the larvae. The
larvae of many species of high value food fishes are very small and the conventional
live feeds employed in the hatchery such as rotifer and Artemia nauplii are not suitable
to initiate the larval feeding during the critical stage mainly because of their larger size
compared to the mouth size of the concerned fish larvae and also their poor nutritional
value especially the fatty acid profile. Copepods are the best live feed due to their
small sized nauplii and better fatty acid composition especially the DHA, EPA and ARA
combination. But the major bottleneck for employing copepods as live feed is the lack of
technologies for their mass culture in hatcheries. Even at a global level, this is a vital issue
and even though some technologies were developed, research efforts are now being
intensified in this area. In India, not much effort was taken to solve this problem till very
recently. In the last few years, the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has
been focusing on this aspect and has come out with technologies for mass production
of nine species of copepods. These technologies were successfully applied to seed
production of the orange spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides), the Indian pompano
(Trachinotus mookalee) and the pink ear emperor (Lethrinus lentjan). I congratulate
Dr. B. Santhosh and his team for developing this unique technology for mass production
of nine species of marine copepods for the first time in India. This publication titled
‘Culture techniques of Marine Copepods’ details this technology. I hope that the same
will be a landmark in the near future which will pave the way for successful seed
production of many more species of finfishes in mariculture.
 
Publisher ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2018
 
Type Book
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13376/1/Culture%20Techniques%20of%20Marine%20Copepods_2019.pdf
Santhosh, B and Anil, M K and Muhammed Anzeer, F and Aneesh, K S and Abraham, Mijo V and Gopakumar, G and George, Rani Mary and Gopalakrishnan, A and Unnikrishnan, C (2018) Culture Techniques of Marine Copepods. CMFRI Booklet Series No.4/2018 . ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi.