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Culture techniques and production rates of molluscs in India

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Title Culture techniques and production rates of molluscs in India
 
Creator Alagarswami, K
 
Subject Molluscan Fisheries
 
Description The estimated world production through
aquaculture in 1975 was 6.1 million tons, of
which the molluscs formed 16.2% (Pillay, 1979).
The production of oysters in the above was
591,386 t, mussels 328, 517 t, clams 38,851 t,
scallops 62,600 t, and cockles and other
molluscs 29,987 t, totalling to 1,061,341 t.
In 1980, the estimated world aquasultured
production was 8,707,363 t to which the
molluscs contributed 3,196,308 t or 36.7% of
the total production (Alagarswami, 1986).
The production of molluscs in a five-year period
appeared to have trebled, whereas the overall
increase of fish, shellfish and seaweeds put
together has been only 42.7%. The world
aquaculture production figures have been cited
here only to indicate the aquaculture species
group, on which the scope lies for future
expansion. Nutritionally speaking, the yield of
high-quality protein by bivalves per hectare of
surface sea water far exceeds the protein that
could be produced on a hectare of land by any
known terrestrial plant or animal (Hulse, 1982).
But economically speaking, culture of bivalves
may not be as attractive as shrimp farming or
culture of some choice finfish species.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1988
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2582/1/Article_03.pdf
Alagarswami, K (1988) Culture techniques and production rates of molluscs in India. CMFRI Bulletin, 42 (2). pp. 239-246.