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Experiments on grow out culture of groupers, Epinephelus malabaricus (Schneider) and Epinephelus tauvina (Forskal)

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Title Experiments on grow out culture of groupers,
Epinephelus malabaricus (Schneider) and
Epinephelus tauvina (Forskal)
 
Creator Nair, K V Somasekharan
Manojkumar, P P
Koya, K P Said
Suresh, V K
 
Subject Mariculture
Groupers
 
Description The results of the experiments conducted on the grow-out culture of the Malabar
grouper Epinephelus malabaricus and Greasy grouper Epinephelus tauvina in
three different culture systems such as brackish water earthern ponds, silpaulin
lined ponds and FRP tanks during 1996-1998 are presented. In the earthern
pond, from a mean size of 183 mm SE 21.67 and 137.9 g SE 4.78 in May 1997
E. tauvina attained 442 mm 4.25 and 1780 g SE 4.79 in March 1998 at the end
of eleven months showing a daily growth increment of 0.78 mm and 4.97 g.
In the silpaulin lined pond, E. malabaricus grew from an average size of 163.2
mm SE 2.96 (74.2 g SE 2.09 ) in April 1997 to 425.7 mm SE 3.65 (1170 g SE
4.67) in March 1998 registering a mean growth of 0.72 mm (3.04 g) per day.
The average daily growth increment for E. tauvina in the FRP tank during the
culture period was only 0.51 mm (1.53 g). The present investigations have
shown the prospect of culturing groupers in the presently unutilised/underutilised
estuarine and brackish water ponds.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 2005
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/209/1/IJF_52_no.4_%2C2005_-_11nair.pdf
Nair, K V Somasekharan and Manojkumar, P P and Koya, K P Said and Suresh, V K (2005) Experiments on grow out culture of groupers, Epinephelus malabaricus (Schneider) and Epinephelus tauvina (Forskal). Indian Journal of Fisheries, 52 (4). pp. 469-476.