Prospects of seaweed farming in India

Kaliaperumal, N (2004) Prospects of seaweed farming in India. In: Proceedings of Ocean Life Food and Medicine Expo, 27-29 February 2004, Chennai.

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Abstract

Seaweeds constitute one of the commercially important marine living renewable resources. They are used as human food, feed for animals, fertilizer for land crops, source of chemicals and drugs. The estimated total standing crop of seaweeds from intertidal and shallow waters of all maritime states, Lakshadweep and Andaman was 91,339 tons (wet wt.). The quantity of seaweeds estimated in deep waters of Tamilnadu was 75,373 tons (wet wt.) in an area of 1863 sq.km. from Dhanushkodi to Kanyakumari.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	seaweed; seaweed farming; India
Subjects:	Algae > Seaweed
Divisions:	CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division
Depositing User:	Arun Surendran
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2011 07:01
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2015 15:45
URI:	http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/7762

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