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Farming of the anadromous shad, Tenualosa ilisha: Signs of taking off in India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15437/
https://enaca.org/?id=1181&title=aquaculture-asia-magazine%2C-july-september-2021
 
Title Farming of the anadromous shad, Tenualosa ilisha:
Signs of taking off in India
 
Creator Suresh, V V R
Sandhya, K M
Banik, S
Mukherjee, J
Mukherjee, Indranil
Sajina, A M
Maity, Tara
Mukhopadhyay, M K
Manna, R K
Behera, Bijay Kumar
 
Subject Farming/Culture
Aquaculture
Freshwater Fisheries
 
Description Clupeids are important food fi shes in high demand and
hence are heavily exploited across the World. Most tropical
clupeids are un-domesticated and caught from the wild. The
species, Tenualosa ilisha, belonging to the family Clupeidae,
is an economically important food fi sh in India, Bangladesh,
Myanmar, Arabian countries, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand,
Viet Nam, and Sri Lanka. Locally called hilsa, the species
forms a rich fi shery worth over US$ 2.0 billion in the northern
Bay of Bengal and associated rivers in India, Bangladesh,
and Myanmar1. By nature, the species is anadromous;
spawns in freshwater stretches of rivers and the juveniles
migrate to saline off shore waters for growth and maturation
and again migrate back to freshwater stretches of rivers
for spawning. The populations of the species are declining
globally2, largely due to overexploitation and habitat modifi cations. Its fi shery has drastically declined in the Bay of Bengal
bordering India3. Considering the excessive demand and very
high market price of the fi sh and to ease fi shing pressure on
its wild stocks, there have been eff orts for domestication and
farming of the species in India, besides legislated natural
stock management eff orts. The early eff orts on breeding,
larval rearing and grow out in captivity of the species were
not measurably successful4. However, the momentum on
developing captive breeding and farming technologies for
the species have been re-invigorated with research funding
from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR),
New Delhi, through a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional
project, ‘Stock characterization, captive breeding, seed
production and culture of hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha)’ since 2012.
 
Publisher Aquaculture Asia
 
Date 2021-07-08
 
Type Article
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15437/1/Aquaculture%20Asia_2021_V%20V%20R%20Suresh.pdf
Suresh, V V R and Sandhya, K M and Banik, S and Mukherjee, J and Mukherjee, Indranil and Sajina, A M and Maity, Tara and Mukhopadhyay, M K and Manna, R K and Behera, Bijay Kumar (2021) Farming of the anadromous shad, Tenualosa ilisha: Signs of taking off in India. Aquaculture Asia, 25 (3). pp. 10-14.