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Production and growth of cultchless oyster spat of Crassostrea madrasensis (Preston) for single oyster culture

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Title Production and growth of cultchless oyster spat of Crassostrea
madrasensis (Preston) for single oyster culture
 
Creator Laxmilatha, P
Surendranath, V G
Sadasivan, M P
Ramachandran, N P
 
Subject Edible oyster
Farming/Culture
 
Description In India, edible oyster (Crassostrea madrasensis)
farming is being practised by several farmers in
central Kerala employing the rack and ren method
in the estuaries and backwaters. However, farmed
oysters do not find ready marketability due to the
high labour costs involved in handling and shucking.
The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute,
Cochin, Kerala, has developed the hatchery
technology for edible oyster spat production, both
cultched and cultchless. Nevertheless, these have
not been commercialised due to the fact that spat
collection from wild is still the most feasible option in
oyster farming. The aim of the present study was to
produce cultchless spat in the farm site itself and
rear it to commercial size for harvesting uniform sized
regular, rounded single oysters.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/8859/1/8-11.pdf
Laxmilatha, P and Surendranath, V G and Sadasivan, M P and Ramachandran, N P (2011) Production and growth of cultchless oyster spat of Crassostrea madrasensis (Preston) for single oyster culture. Marine Fisheries Information Service (207). pp. 8-11.