Backyard lobster fattening unit Economic feasibility analysis

Abstract

Lobsters form an important fishery all along the coastline of India. The lobster resource potential of Indian EEZ is 50,000 mt (Vijayakumaran and Radhakrishnan, 2000). Against this, lobster production of India in the year 20.00 was 2,387 t, consisting of spiny lobsters, sand lobsters, and deep-sea lobsters. While lobster fishery occurs round the year along the Indian coast and its island territories , th ere are peak seasons depending on the hydrographic conditions and natural fishery dist ribution of the regions concerned.