Coastal cage farming of marine finfish, Indian pompano

Megarajan, Sekhar and Shiva, Ponnaganti and Balla, Vamsi and Madhu, K and Kizhakudan, Joe K (2024) Coastal cage farming of marine finfish, Indian pompano. In: Manual on Advances in Marine Finfish Farming Practices. CMFRI Training Manual Series No.37/2024 . ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Visakhapatnam, pp. 41-49.

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Abstract

Cage farming technology is widely recognized as one of the most important culture technologies in mariculture for increasing fish production. High saline estuaries are one of the unified ecosystems, considered for improving the livelihood of selected rural population. In India, huge estuarine resources are available bordering the coasts and these potentially available under-utilized high saline waters bodies, could be efficiently utilized by culturing different species of finfishes in cages installed thereof. Different species of marine finfishes can be cultured in high saline estuarine cages and Indian pompano (Trichinous mookalee), is one such suitable potential candidate species. Pompano is a preferred species for cage culture with the following characteristics; quick adaptability to different culture conditions, ease of accepting artificial pellet feed, tolerant to wide range of salinity, fast growth rate and high consumer preference. Understanding the culture characteristics of the fish, coastal cage culture technology for the species was developed and demonstrated under blue revolution scheme by Government of Indiaby ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute. Various steps involved in cage culture of the species are explained below.

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