Culture of brown mussel at Vizhinjam

Appukuttan, K K and Nair, T Prabhakaran and Joseph, Mathew and Thomas, K T (1980) Culture of brown mussel at Vizhinjam. CMFRI Bulletin, 29. pp. 30-32.

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Abstract

Results of experiments on the cuhure of brown mussel in the Vizhinjam Bay and in the open sea are given. 25-29 mm spat collected during October and November from natural beds and grown on coir ropes suspended from 5 x 4 m rafts grow to 66 mm size in a period of 8 months, giving an average growth of 3.5 mm/month. In the open sea rafts the growth is still faster reaching 66 mm in 5 months at the rate of 5 mm growth per month. The possibility of a production of 150 tonnes of mussels/ha in the bay has been indicated.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	brown mussel; Vizhinjam
Subjects:	Molluscan Fisheries > Mussel culture
Divisions:	CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
Depositing User:	Users 5 not found.
Date Deposited:	31 May 2010 12:01
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2015 15:08
URI:	http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/713

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