Friday, February 25, 2011

Sea bass harvested from fresh water tanks at Saliyamangalam

Heard of marine fish culture in fresh water? The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has achieved this. A tonne of sea bass, purely a marine species, was harvested from fresh water tanks at Aqua Nova farm at Saliyamangalam village near Thanjavur on Thursday.

M.S.Shanmugham, District Collector, saw the harvest and appreciated MPEDA for achieving this. According to S.Kandan, Assistant Director (Aquaculture) MPEDA, two hectares of fresh water pond belonging to G.S.Samarasam was selected at Saliyamangalam for the purpose.

Around 4000 seabass fingerlings (6 c.m x 3.2 gram weight) produced at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture at Sirkazhi in Nagapattinam were stocked in the 2x2x3.2 meter cages put up in the pond and cultured by giving imported pellet feed. Within eleven months the fingerlings grew to 38 cm size fish with an average weight of 750 grams. "The growth is better than in sea water and there is no disease attack", Mr.Kandan said. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.


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1 comment:

  1. Kindly inform the feed given in different life stages.
    Also, about the possibility of culture in Tanks as done for Nile tilapia

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