Open sea Cage culture: carrying capacity and stocking in the grow out system

Abstract

Developing open sea cage farming is a new way of providing employment to fishermen transferring from fish capture to aquaculture. It will also create significant socioeconomic influences in the future. The near target of cage culture is that marine fish farming will become a main force in aquaculture sector. The open sea cage culture has been expanding in recent years on a global basis and it is viewed by many stakeholders in the industry as the aquaculture system of the millennium. The Asian seabass, Lates calcarifer, known as “Kaalangi” in Kerala is an important candidate finfish species for sea cage farming.