New technology developed to breed marine fish popular for its meat quality

The Central Marine Fisheries Exploration Institute (CMFRI), one of India’s leading research organisations has designed hatchery technological know-how for Picnic Seabream (Acanthopagrus berda), a commercially essential maritime food stuff fish.

The breakthrough will help in the diversification of the country’s mariculture actions as the fish – Black Seabream and Goldsilk Seabream – is identified for their superb meat quality and superior economic value. It has superior demand in the domestic industry with a price tag of about ₹450-five hundred for every kg.

Regionally named Karutha Yeri, the fish is an superb species for mariculture owing to its more rapidly progress charge, potent resistance to disorders and means to cope up with huge variants in environmental parameters such as salinity and temperature.

The breeding technological know-how, designed by the Karwar Exploration Centre of CMFRI, is predicted to open up tremendous scope for the country’s mariculture ventures in around potential through species diversification, stated Director of CMFRI A Gopalakrishnan.

Boost in breeding

With the enhancement of hatchery technological know-how for Picnic Seabream, there could be a new surge in an exponential boost in maritime finfish output, he stated.

The future job of the institute is to standardise the farming protocol of the fish, as no document of breeding and aquaculture of this fish is available in the nation.

Thinking about the attributes of the fish, the mariculture of Picnic Seabream is predicted to be hugely possible in phrases of attracting business advantages and conference growing seafood demand in the around potential, he stated.

According to Gopalakrishnan, India targets to generate four-5 million tonnes of fish in the future ten several years through mariculture. Species diversification for mariculture is principally aimed at obtaining this focus on by maximizing the maritime cage farming program throughout the coastal states of the nation.

This is the seventh maritime food stuff fish for which breeding technological know-how was designed by the CMFRI. It took about 3 several years for the CMFRI experts to produce the seed output technological know-how for this fish.

Earlier, the institute experienced succeeded in brood inventory enhancement of fishes like Cobia, Silver Pompano, Indian Pompano, Orange-noticed Grouper, Pink Ear Emperor and John’s Snapper. CMFRI would transfer these systems to people interested in the business output of the seeds, he stated.