Coastal pond farming of Orange spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides): A package of practice for effective technology dissemination

Megarajan, Sekhar and Ranjan, Ritesh and Xavier, Biji and Ghosh, Shubhadeep and Sadhu, Narasimhulu and Shiva, Ponnaganti and Gopalakrishnan, A (2024) Coastal pond farming of Orange spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides): A package of practice for effective technology dissemination. Marine Fisheries Information Service No.260. pp. 18-21. ISSN 0254-380X

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Abstract

Groupers are classified in 14 genera of the subfamily Epinephelinae, which comprises at least half the approximately 449 species in the family Serranidae. Throughout most warm and temperate marine regions, serranids are highly valued for food in different countries. In the Indo-Pacific and Middle Eastern regions, several grouper species are farmed in cages, ponds, and tanks, but mostly they are raised from wild juveniles and are fed trash fish. Groupers are popular fish in the global Live Reef Food Fish (LRFF) trade in most of the southeast Asian countries. Among different species of groupers, Orange spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides is one of the important farmed grouper species and has the potential to become an important aquaculture species because of high market price and other cultivable characteristics. Captive seed production technology for the species was developed and followed by the coastal pond farming method was developed by the Visakhapatnam Regional centre of ICAR – Central Marine Research Institute. Under the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) sponsored project, the coastal pond culture technology was disseminated in Krishna, West Godavari and East Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh using hatchery-produced seeds. With the result obtained from the technology dissemination in different coastal pond ecosystem, the package of the practice for the coastal farming of the fish is well developed.

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