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Spiny Lobsters and Potential of Sea Cage Culture Spiny Lobster Resources in India

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Title Spiny Lobsters and Potential of Sea Cage Culture
Spiny Lobster Resources in India
 
Creator Saleela, K N
Santhosh, B
Anil, M K
Jasmine, S
Unnikrishnan, C
Pillai, Arathy R
 
Subject Cage culture
Lobsters
 
Description Fishery science and technology contributes a vital role in the augmentation of fish
production globally.Among the seafood items, spiny lobsters have a prime position in
terms of high unit value, demand, nutritional qualities with less perishable nature.
Lobsters have great demand in international and domestic market, especially from
tourism based beach resorts and restaurants as a luxury food. The annual lobster
landings in India has been declining from a peak of 4,075 t in 1985 to the present
annual average of 1,546 t. On an average, the fishery is contributed by Gujarat
(43.7%), Maharashtra (25.4%), Tamil Nadu(14.6%) and Kerala (13%) (CMFRI
Annual Report 2000-2015). Lobster fishing in India is mostly carried out by region
specific traditional fishermen communities inhabiting along the coastal belts of
different maritime states. Over the years the lobster fishery in India witnessed changes
in fishing pattern, utility pattern with the introduction of live export market , sea cage
culture and increased consumption and demand from tourism sector .
Live Lobsters have a prominent place in the sea food export market both in terms of
demand and price from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Europe and USA. India
witnessed a sea change in foreign exchange earnings through marine products export
worth 46,975 million rupees during 1997-98 and 55,111.12 million rupees during
2014-15, from an initial value of 25 million rupees in 1950-51 (Sakthivel, 1999). The
marine products export accounted
and contributed 3.5 % of the total exports in 1990s. Our marine product exports in the
initial stages were in dried and canned form. It has gradually progressed into frozen
h 340 million
rupees in 1996-97 (Sakthivel, 1999). Spiny lobsters formed one of the items in the live
fish export along with mud crabs and reef fishes. The annual average revenue earnings
by India through the export of lobsters is amounted to Rs.74 crores.
 
Publisher ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2017
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14146/1/Spiny%20Lobsters%20and%20Potential%20of%20Sea%20Cage%20Culture%20Spiny%20Lobster%20Resources%20in%20India_2017_Saleela%20K%20N.pdf
Saleela, K N and Santhosh, B and Anil, M K and Jasmine, S and Unnikrishnan, C and Pillai, Arathy R (2017) Spiny Lobsters and Potential of Sea Cage Culture Spiny Lobster Resources in India. In: Training on Recent Advances in Mariculture. ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 57-62.