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Aquaculture of spiny lobsters in sea cages in Gujarat, India

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Title Aquaculture of spiny lobsters in sea cages in Gujarat, India
 
Creator Mohamed, Gulshad
Rao, G Syda
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
 
Subject Lobsters
Cage culture
 
Description A total of 2,256 juveniles of the mud spiny lobster, Panulirus polyphagus with a mean carapace length
of 40.44 mm and mean body weight of 67.83 g after acclimatization for a period of twelve weeks
in 8000 litres FRP tanks were stocked in open sea cage near Veraval on the coast of Gujarat, India
at a density of 12.4 m-3. The lobsters were fed twice daily with fresh fish and mollusc meat at 10%
of lobster biomass per day. Monitoring of the water quality parameters in the vicinity of the cage
found that they were well within the favourable ranges for shellfish culture indicating that the cage
has not made any adverse impact on the local environment. The lobsters were harvested from the
cage after 120 days at a mean wet weight of 212.65 g. Survival was 86.1 %. The results of this
preliminary experiment indicate that there is commercial potential for the development of sea cage
culture of Panulirus polyphagus in Gujarat.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7907/1/JMBA-52%282%29%3B316-319%2C2010.pdf
Mohamed, Gulshad and Rao, G Syda and Ghosh, Shubhadeep (2010) Aquaculture of spiny lobsters in sea cages in Gujarat, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 52 (2). pp. 316-319.