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Studies on the deep water crab Charybdis (Goniohellenus) smithii Macleay from the seas around India

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Title Studies on the deep water crab Charybdis (Goniohellenus) smithii Macleay from the seas around India
 
Creator Balasubramanian, C P
 
Subject Theses
Crustacean Fisheries
Crabs
 
Description It is an established fact that the world population swells at an
alarming rate year after year, and over half of the same is believed
to suffer from malnutrition. At the present rate of population explosion
it is likely that the global population may up from the present level
of 5 billion to about 8 billion by the close of the present centuary (Becker,
1992). The food from land is so limited that it may not be able to satisfy
even the basic requirement of the ever increasing population. One of
the alternative to overcome this problem of food shortage is to tap the
vast resources of the ocean which could nourish the human population
many times more than its present level. According to FAO fishery Statistics
the world fish production in 1990 amounted to about 97 million
tonnes of which 95.8 million tonnes have come from the sea. Crustaceans
comprising of prawns lobsters and crabs accounted for about 4.4% of
this, which are the most highly valiJable commodities t:!{ virtue of their
pivotal role in the seafood industry of the world. In India, the marine
fiShery is mostly export oriented and among the seafood items exported
from the country, the crustaceans account for 80ut 45 % in terms of
volume and 75% in terms of value. According to the latest export figure,
this amounts to about 14,000 million rupees annually (Sukumaran, 1992).
Among edible crustaceans crats occupy the third rank, the first and second
positions being given to prawns and lobsters on account of their demand
in the overseas markets. Crab meat is considered as a delicacy in many
parts of the world and within the country it is an important source of
protein rich food for the less affluent society of coastal areas. .Besides
its immense nutritive value, the crab meat also carries many therapeutic
properties. Crab shells are rich source of chitin and its chitosan content
which have numerous industrial and medicinal applications, particularly
in the manufacture of artificial fabrics, printing inks, photographic emulsions
adhesive cosmetics, dialysers and anticoagulants (Mendenhall, 1971,
Muzzarelli and Pariser, 1978, Sambasivan, 1992). It is estimated that
the world export earnings from chitin would be about 200 crores dollars
by the end of 2000 AD (Girish Babu, 1990).
 
Date 1993
 
Type Thesis
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7018/1/TH-66_Bal.pdf
Balasubramanian, C P (1993) Studies on the deep water crab Charybdis (Goniohellenus) smithii Macleay from the seas around India. ["eprint_fieldopt_thesis_type_phd" not defined] thesis, Cochin University of Science and Technology.