Marine fish farming bottlenecks and strategies for way forward- SFHMG (seed, feed, health, marketing and genetics)

Kizhakudan, Joe K and Megarajan, Sekhar and Ranjan, Ritesh and Xavier, Biji and Loka, Jayasree and Suresh, R D (2024) Marine fish farming bottlenecks and strategies for way forward- SFHMG (seed, feed, health, marketing and genetics). In: Manual on Advances in Marine Finfish Farming Practices. CMFRI Training Manual Series No.37/2024 . ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Visakhapatnam, pp. 102-117.

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Abstract

Aquaculture has been making encouraging progress worldwide and India is catching up very fast too, producing more food, employment, revenue, livelihood, enhance wild stocks, recycle wastes and upgrade low grade food, rewards farmers, invites investments and trade. The marine and the diadromous finfish species are valued at nearly 3 times the price of the fresh water species and its primarily this area, the focus of mariculture would be, in the coming years all over the world and in India as well. Mariculture is one of the fastest growing sub-sectors of aquaculture in the world. In contrast to the global scenario, where mariculture of finfishes is a well-developed industry, where as in India, it is gradually emerging out from its infancy. Therefore, these finfishes mostly high value marine species which are slightly difficult to breed and reproductive technologies, zootechnical, nutritional and environmental conditions required for the culture of marine finfish are significantly different from those of the fresh water.

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