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Oyster picking in Alambarai Creek

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http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/8656/
 
Title Oyster picking in Alambarai Creek
 
Creator Jayasankar, Vidya
Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe
Manibal, C
 
Subject Bivalves
Edible oyster
 
Description During the course of a survey
conducted in the first week of June
by ferry boat in the Alambarai creek
(Chinna Cuddalore area, Tamil Nadu) to
study the availability of fish seed suitable
for cage culture operations, clam beds
(Meretrix casta) and oyster beds
(Crassostrea madrasensis and Saccostrea
cucullata) were observed in the creek.
There is a thriving sustenance fishery
for oysters in the creek. Oyster picking is
a trade practiced year-round in the area
by a group of about 15 people,
predominantly women of Kotte Kadu
village, who do not belong to the
fishermen community.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16221/1/CMFRI_NL_2011_129_10_2.pdf
Jayasankar, Vidya and Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe and Manibal, C (2011) Oyster picking in Alambarai Creek. CMFRI Newsletter Cadalmin (129). p. 10.