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Review on production of mussel seed

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Title Review on production of mussel seed
 
Creator Alagarswami, K
 
Subject Mussel culture
 
Description Production of mussel seed requires priority attention for the expansion of mussel culture as an industry in India. Procurement
of adequate seed from the wild beds even for the current experimental programmes is faced with problems. Two lines of approach
have been suggested for enhancing seed production.
The first approach is to harness the production of seed in nature through three ways, namely exploitation of the mussel seed
settling on the stone embankments and groynes laid as an anti-sea erosion measure, enhancement of spat fall on artificially laid col
lectors in the farms ; and selecting areas where the current system and other environmental factors are conducive for larval
transport and settlement of the pediveliger stage in the sites where breeding reserves of adult mussel are provided.
The second approach is through hatchery system. Although mussel hatcheries do not exist in Europe where world mussel
production is concentrated in view of plentiful supply of natural seed, it is imperative for India to develop the hatchery technology
as the natural seed availability is severely limited.
While discussing the above aspects of seed production, the paper reviews the larval history of mussel and the technologies
available for induced spawning and larval rearing, with particular reference to larval food and diseases.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1980
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/710/1/Article_05.pdf
Alagarswami, K (1980) Review on production of mussel seed. CMFRI Bulletin, 29. pp. 22-26.