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The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CMFRI) on Thursday said it's developed a hatchery technology for picnic seabream (Acanthopagrus berda), a commercially important marine fish. The CMFRI has described it as a "breakthrough" in the diversification of the country's mariculture activities because it is predicted to open up enormous scope for the country's mariculture ventures in near future through species diversification.
Also referred to as black seabream and gold silk seabream, the fish is understood for its excellent meat quality and high value. it's high demand within the domestic market with a price of around Rs 450 to 500 per kg. Locally called 'karutha yeri', the fish is a superb species for mariculture due to its faster rate of growth, strong resistance to diseases, and skill to cope up with wide variations in environmental parameters like salinity and temperature, a CMFRI release said here on Thursday.
According to Dr A Gopalakrishnan, Director of CMFRI, with the event of hatchery technology for picnic seabream, Indian mariculture is poised for a replacement surge with an exponential increase in marine finfish production. He said the subsequent task of the institute is to standardize the farming protocol of the fish as no record of breeding and aquaculture of this fish is out there within the country.
"Considering the characteristics of the fish, mariculture of picnic seabream is predicted to be highly prospective in terms of attracting commercial benefits and meeting growing seafood demand within the near future," he said. Gopalakrishnan said India targets 4 to five million metric tonnes of fish production within the next 10 years from mariculture. Species diversification for mariculture is primarily aimed toward achieving this target by enhancing the marine cage farming system across the coastal states of the country, he said.
This is the seventh marine fish of which breeding technology was developed by the CMFRI. It took around three years for the CMFRI scientists to develop the seed production technology for this fish.
Earlier, the institute had succeeded in broodstock development of fishes like cobia, silver pompano, Indian pompano, orange-spotted grouper, pink ear emperor and John's snapper. CMFRI said it might transfer these technologies to those curious
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