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Pearl oyster culture in Vizhinjam Bay

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Title Pearl oyster culture in Vizhinjam Bay
 
Creator Appukuttan, K K
 
Subject Pearl oyster
 
Description In India, Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat and Gulf of
Mannar in Tamil Nadu are well known areas for pearl
oyster resources. Hornell (1922) gave the history of
pearl fishery of Gulf of Mannar in detail. Alagarswami
(1970, 1975) and Alagarswami and Qasim (1973) have
dealt with the distribution of pearl oysters in India,
exploitation, farming methods and technology of culture
of pearls. Mahadevan and Nayar (1973) reviewed
Indian pearl fishery resources and identified Pinctada
fucata as the common Indian pearl oyster from Gulf of
Mannar and Gulf of Kutch. Rao and Rao (1974)
have identified six important species of pearl oysters
from Indian Coasts. Preliminary idea of pearl oyster
resources from Gulf of Kutch is from Hornell's work
(1909). Later Easwaran et al. (1968) described the
present status of pearl fishery in Gulf of Kutch and
Pandya (1974) gave pearl oyster fishery and culture
experiments in Gujarat.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2666/1/Article_11.pdf
Appukuttan, K K (1987) Pearl oyster culture in Vizhinjam Bay. CMFRI Bulletin - Pearl culture, 39. pp. 54-61.