CMFRl successfully conducts maiden harvest of newly bred fish Silver Pompano (American Pomfret)

CMFRI, Kochi (2012) CMFRl successfully conducts maiden harvest of newly bred fish Silver Pompano (American Pomfret). MPEDA Newsletter, April . p. 27.

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Abstract

The CMFRI, located in all maritime states of India, in its quest to introduce new species of fish to Indian Aquaculture successfully bred Silver Pompano, a fish which is ahn to highly priced Pomfrets. Very few countries are successful in breeding ths fish and the entire world production is only about 300 tonnes. After the successful larval rearing they were transported by road in the last week of August 201 1 from Mandapam, near Rameswaram in Tamilnadu to Antervedi in the East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh at a &stance of 1200 km and stocked in 1 acre pond of a farmer.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	CMFRl; maiden harvest; Silver Pompano; American Pomfret; induced breeding; mariculture
Subjects:	Aquaculture > Mariculture Demersal Fishes > Pomfrets
Divisions:	CMFRI-Visakhapatnam
Depositing User:	Arun Surendran
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2012 11:29
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2015 15:52
URI:	http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/8977

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