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Penaeid prawn resources and potential for prawn culture

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Title Penaeid prawn resources and potential for prawn culture
 
Creator Silas, E G
Muthu, M S
Kathirvel, M
 
Subject Aquaculture
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description Our knowledge of the penaeid prawns of Andaman
and Nicobar Islands is based on the pioneering works
of Wood-Mason (1891, 1893), de Man (1892,
1911), Alcocfc and Anderson (1899), Alcock (1901,
1905, 1906) and Balss (1925), who reported about
120 species, most of them deep water forms. Recently,
Silas and Muthu (1976 a, b) and Thomas
(1977) recorded 12 littoral species for the first time
from this region, of which one is new to science. Though
data on the landings of penaeid prawns from these
islands are available from 1965 onwards, no infor
mation is available on the biology of the exploited stock.
Basic information on the biology of important prawns
n Andaman and Nicobar Island s collected during the
survey, along with the data collected earlier are presen
ted here. The potential for prawn culture is indicated.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1983
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/842/1/Bulletin_No_34-10.pdf
Silas, E G and Muthu, M S and Kathirvel, M (1983) Penaeid prawn resources and potential for prawn culture. CMFRI Bulletin, 34. pp. 54-60.