A three-day International Seminar cum Workshop on Mangrove Crab Aquaculture and Fisheries Management (ISMAF 2013) was organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), the R&D arm of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) of India, in collaboration with the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre (SEAFDEC), Philippines, 10-12 April 2013 at Sirkazhi, Tamil Nadu. The event was inaugurated by Dr (Mrs) B Meenakumari, Deputy Director General (Fy) of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research in the presence of Ms Leena Nair, Chairman MPEDA & President RGCA; Dr E G Silas, Former Director of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute & Former Vice Chancellor of Kerala Agriculture University; Shri T Munuswamy, IAS, Dist Collector of Nagapattinam; Shri Y C Thampi Sam Raj, Project Director of RGCA; and a gathering of eminent scientists and technocrats. The workshop was attended by about 130 participants from the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Kenya, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bahrain, Palau Islands, Australia, France and India. The seminar cum workshop was designed to disseminate the latest information and developments on mangrove crab culture. The seminar focussed on the importance of mangrove crab culture in boosting a country’s economy, through sustainable culture techniques and also in conserving natural mangrove crab resources. The thematic areas were biology/physiology/ genetics, breeding/husbandry and fisheries/ resource management. RGCA has made a breakthrough in mangrove crab research by achieving a survival of 18.1% in larval rearing, which had always remained a bottleneck in commercialisation of crab hatchery technology. The encouraging results obtained by farmers in the farming of mangrove crabs, either in monoculture or polyculture with shrimps, resulted in over 15 000 acres being utilised for mangrove crab aquaculture in Andhra Pradesh alone. International Seminar–Workshop on Mangrove Crab Aquaculture Fisheries Management Several thousand acres of unexploited natural resources along the coastal regions of the country are ready for the development of mangrove crab aquaculture. RGCA is all geared up to escalate its production capacity for mud crab seeds and to increase survival rates further. infofish.org/News.aspx?Type=Infofish&ID=370
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:46:04 +0000
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