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Oyster resources of Athankarai estuary, southeast coast of India

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Title Oyster resources of Athankarai estuary, southeast coast of India
 
Creator Rao, K Satyanarayana
Sivalingam, D
Nair, P N Radhakrishnan
Unnithan, K Asokakumaran
 
Subject Edible oyster
 
Description The oyster Crassostrea madrasensis is distributed
at several places along the east and southwest coasts
of India (Rao 1969, Alagarswami and Narasimham
1973) and has good economic potential but so far
resources survey of the shellfish populations has not
been carried out in any area. Estimates of the standing
stocks are essential for planning exploitation of the
oyster resources. A precise knowledge of the natural
stocks and the ecological conditions in which they
abound is especially necessary to plan and conduct
oyster culture which is essential for large scale exploitation.
Beds of oysters bslonging to the species Crassostrea madrasensis
are present in Athankarai Estuary at Athankarai near Mandapam
Camp on the southeast coast of India. The highly nutritious shellfish
resources are not exploited by people of the area for food. Only
occasionally oyster shells are collected and burnt in
small kilns and converted into lime. The oyster resources
of the estuary have been surveyed. The general
features of the Athankarai estuary, hydrological conditions,
ecologically associated fauna and flora, distribution
and magnitude of standing stocks of oysters,
and seasonal changes in meat of oysters have been
studied and the results are presented here.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Nayar, K Nagappan
Mahadevan, S
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2632/1/Article_07.pdf
Rao, K Satyanarayana and Sivalingam, D and Nair, P N Radhakrishnan and Unnithan, K Asokakumaran (1987) Oyster resources of Athankarai estuary, southeast coast of India. CMFRI Bulletin, 38. pp. 17-29.