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Seed Production and Culture of Marine Ornamental Fishes

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10683/
 
Title Seed Production and Culture of Marine
Ornamental Fishes
 
Creator Gopakumar, G
Nazar, A K A
Jayakumar, R
 
Subject Mariculture
Ornamental Fishes
 
Description The marine ornamental fish trade has been expanding in recent years and has grown into a multimillion
dollar enterprise. The ornamental animals are the highest valued products that are mostly harvested from coral
reef environments. The global marine ornamental trade is estimated at US$ 200-330 million. The trade is
operated throughout the tropics. Philippines, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Australia, Fiji, Maldives and
Palau supplied more than 98% of the total number of marine ornamental fish exported in recent years. It is a
multi-stakeholder industry ranging from specimen collectors, culturists, wholesalers, transhippers, retailers,
and hobbyists to researchers, government resource managers and conservators and hence involves a series of
issues to be addressed and policies to be formulated for developing and expanding a sustainable trade. It is well
understood that a long term sustainable trade of marine ornamental fishes can be developed only through the
development and commercialization of hatchery production technologies for the species which are in high
demand in the trade.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2015
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10683/1/22.%20Gopakumar.pdf
Gopakumar, G and Nazar, A K A and Jayakumar, R (2015) Seed Production and Culture of Marine Ornamental Fishes. [Teaching Resource]