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Enhancing profitability through improved seeding techniques in green mussel (Perna viridis) farming

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Title Enhancing profitability through improved seeding techniques in green mussel (Perna viridis) farming
 
Creator Mohamed, K S
Kripa, V
Velayudhan, T S
Appukuttan, K K
 
Subject Mussel culture
 
Description In mussel farming, the high.investment costs on polyethylene ropes and operating costs due to transplanting mussel seeds can be reduced through the use of new seeding techniques. New methods were attempted by transplanting Perna viridis (L.) seed to 12 mm diameter polyethylene
ropes on which biodegradable cotton net was wrapped and stitched together (control), 12 mm frilled polyethylene rope (Fuzzym) with white fully degradable tubing socks (FuW)
and grey semi-degradable synthetic tubing socks (FuG) and 5 cm broad flexible plastic strips (FPS) kept inside pre-stitched biodegradable cotton net. The treatments, which were replicated, were suspended from a fixed rack in a shallow tropical estuary (Ashtamudi Lake). The specific growth rate (SGR) in length and weight, fallout percentage and production in different treatments were compared. There was no significant difference in the SGR in length and
weight, while the fallout percentage was significantly (P
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 2003
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2190/1/Mohamed_214-223.pdf
Mohamed, K S and Kripa, V and Velayudhan, T S and Appukuttan, K K (2003) Enhancing profitability through improved seeding techniques in green mussel (Perna viridis) farming. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 45 (2). pp. 214-223.