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Open sea raft culture of green mussel at Calicut

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/714/
 
Title Open sea raft culture of green mussel at Calicut
 
Creator Kuriakose, P S
 
Subject Mussel culture
 
Description Employing coir ropes of 5-8 m length, suspended from 6 X 5 m and 8 x 8 m teak wood rafts anchord in the open sea off
Calicut at depths 8-10 m, transplanted green mussel seed (20-30 mm size) show a fast growth ranging from 10.6 mm to 13.5 ram
per month reaching harvestable size of 80 mm in 5 months. A production range of 4.4 kg to 12.3 kg per metre length of rope has
been achieved. Meat content ranges from 34.82-40.5 %,
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1980
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/714/1/Article_08.pdf
Kuriakose, P S (1980) Open sea raft culture of green mussel at Calicut. CMFRI Bulletin, 29. pp. 33-38.