Asian-Pacific Aquaculture 2019

June 19 - 21, 2019

Chennai Tamil Nadu - India

SCAMPI M. rosenbergii CULTURE IN MINE WATER: A CASE STUDY

Kamalini  *, Aishwarya Chakraborty,  A.Gopalakrishnan
Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Sciences,
Annamalai University,  Parangipettai 608 001, TN
 

In India, farming of M. rosenbergii gained prominence in the late 1990s as the demand for prawns was increasingly felt as an alternative to the tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon, the farming of which had suffered heavy losses from viral epidemics, and many legal regulations restricting production. A locally adapted seed production technology had also been standardized by research institutions in the late 1980s for mass production of prawn juveniles that facilitated rapid expansion of farming areas in different parts of the country. In the present study, the scampi culture in the mine water of NLC Indian Ltd, Neyveli.  This study area is situated (Lat. 11.61˚N, Long. 79.49˚E) in the block 10, Neyveli T.S, Cuddalore,  TamilNadu.  NLC India Ltd. has given a new dimension to bio-diversity conservation by introducing integrated fish farming. Under its corporate social responsibility plan, NLCIL developed its Kundan tank, a mine water body spread over nine acres. Totally seven ponds, in that one pond was stocked with Scampi seeds procured from a commercial scampi seeds. In the present attempt, the growth, survival and production were studied.