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Prawn culture practices in salt-pan reservoirs Manakkudy near Cape Comorin

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Title Prawn culture practices in salt-pan reservoirs Manakkudy near Cape Comorin
 
Creator Suseelan, C
 
Subject Aquaculture
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description The methods employed for culturing Penaeus indicus in the brackishwater
reservoirs of the salt works adjoining Manakkudy Estuary near Cape
Comorin are described together with notes on biology of the species. Observations
were carried out in three reservoirs (3 hectares) from January 1973
to December 1973. Culturing is done in two seasons is a year, one from
February to May and another from June to December. Juvenile prawn of
modal size 61 - 70 mm obtained from nearby estuary and stocked in February
grow to marketable size of 135 mm and are harvested in May and this
stocked in June are harvested from September onwards till December.
During the period of culture no artificial food is given and the production
rate is estimated at 1144 mha/year.
 
Publisher University of Cochin
 
Date 1975
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6086/1/1.pdf
Suseelan, C (1975) Prawn culture practices in salt-pan reservoirs Manakkudy near Cape Comorin. Bulletin of the Department of Marine Sciences, 7 (3). pp. 477-486.