On the breeding of penaeids and the recruitment of their postlarvae into the backwaters of Cochin

George, M J (1962) On the breeding of penaeids and the recruitment of their postlarvae into the backwaters of Cochin. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 9A (1). pp. 110-116.

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Abstract

As far as known most of the penaeid prawns spawn in the deeper waters of the sea and use the adjacent shallow areas, usually the backwaters, as their nursery grounds. The only exception to this are the observations of Dakin (1946) and Muriel and Bennet (1952) when one of the species was observed to breed in the coastal lakes of New South Wales. The Cochin backwaters are found to be the nursery grounds of three of the commercially important species of penaeids of the area. All these species are noticed to enter the backwaters at very early postlarval stages and the occurrence of these postlarvae in large numbers in these backwaters has been recorded and the data made use of for determining the breeding season of two of them, viz., Metapenaeus dobsoni by Menon (1955) and Metapenaeus monoceros (George, 1959).

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: breeding; penaeids; recruitment; postlarvae
Subjects: Fishery Biology
Crustacean Fisheries > Prawn and Prawn fisheries
Divisions: CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Crustacean Fisheries Division
Depositing User: Dr. V Mohan
Date Deposited: 05 Aug 2010 08:27
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2015 15:14
URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/1993

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