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Biology of the green mussel, Perna viridis (Linnaeus) cultured in Muttukadu lagoon, Madras

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Title Biology of the green mussel, Perna viridis (Linnaeus)
cultured in Muttukadu lagoon, Madras
 
Creator Sreenivasan, P V
Thangavelu, R
Poovannan, P
 
Subject Mussel culture
 
Description This paper deals with the biology of the green mussel, Pema viridis (Linnaeus), cultured by pole and
bag methods in the Maiiculture Farm of CM. F.R. I., located in the Muttukadu lagoon, near Madras. In
the culture system, the mussel showed a growth of 79.8 mm in 11 months. The growth was better in
the cultured population than that of the natural bed mussels. The growth was not uniform, but varied
with active and slow phases in different months.
Spent and spent resorbti ve gonads were predominant among both males and females. Ripe and spawning
mussels were foimd in px>d numbers from January to April. Sexes were evenly distributed in the cultured
mussels. A significant leature was that, inspite of the occurrence of ripe and spawning mussels, there
was scanty settlement of spat, suggesting unfavourable conditions in the area for the establishment of
mussel populations.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/307/1/Article_09.pdf
Sreenivasan, P V and Thangavelu, R and Poovannan, P (1989) Biology of the green mussel, Perna viridis (Linnaeus) cultured in Muttukadu lagoon, Madras. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 36 (2). pp. 149-155.