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On the breeding of penaeids and the recruitment of their postlarvae into the backwaters of Cochin

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1993/
 
Title On the breeding of penaeids and the
recruitment of their postlarvae
into the backwaters of Cochin
 
Creator George, M J
 
Subject Fishery biology
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description As far as known most of the penaeid prawns spawn in the deeper waters of
the sea and use the adjacent shallow areas, usually the backwaters, as their
nursery grounds. The only exception to this are the observations of Dakin
(1946) and Muriel and Bennet (1952) when one of the species was observed
to breed in the coastal lakes of New South Wales. The Cochin backwaters
are found to be the nursery grounds of three of the commercially important
species of penaeids of the area. All these species are noticed to enter the
backwaters at very early postlarval stages and the occurrence of these postlarvae
in large numbers in these backwaters has been recorded and the data
made use of for determining the breeding season of two of them, viz., Metapenaeus
dobsoni by Menon (1955) and Metapenaeus monoceros (George,
1959).
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1962
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1993/1/Article_08.pdf
George, M J (1962) On the breeding of penaeids and the recruitment of their postlarvae into the backwaters of Cochin. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 9A (1). pp. 110-116.