Advance Trends in Aquaculture Practices
by A Balasubramanian, T V Ramana
ISBN: 9789359196985
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2025
Price : Rs. 7895.00
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Author Profile
Dr. A. Balasubramanian Professor and Head, Department of Fisheries Resource Management, College of Fishery Science, Muthukur, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Dr. Balasubramanian obtained his M.F.Sc., degree from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University and Ph.D from Central Institute of Fisheries Education, ICAR, Mumbai, specialized in Fishing Gears and Fisheries Resource Management. He is Professor and Head, Department of Fisheries Resource Management, College of Fishery Science, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University, Muthukur, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India. In addition, he served as Head of Research Station and College and University Head for the discipline of Fisheries Economics and Statistics and Academic Council member in the University. He teaches and guides the BFSc., MFSc., and Ph.D scholars in the discipline of Fisheries Resource Management at this Institute. He has published more than 30 research papers in National and International journals and 5 training manuals and one book as author and co-author. He published more than 20 scientific articles and few extension manuals and booklets. He is life member in various fisheries societies and bodies.
Dr. TV Ramana Principal Scientist & Head, Fisheries Research Station, Kakinada (Former Dean of Fishery Science, SVVU), Dr. Ramana obtained his M.F.Sc., and Ph.D degree from College of Fisheries, Mangalore. He served in various capacities as Professor, University Head and Associate Dean and Dean of Fishery Science at Sri Venkatesawara Veterinary University, Tirupati. He was member of Peer Review Committee (PRT) of ICAR for accreditation of Fisheries Universities/Colleges. He served as one of the members in Andhra Pradesh state committee on constitution of fish feed and review of fish seed act. . He served as expert for various fisheries colleges and Academic council and syndicate member for the discipline of Fisheries Biology and Resource Management in Tamil Nadu Fisheries University, Nagapattinam. He has been guiding master and PhD students in the discipline of Fisheries Resource Management. He has published more than 25 research papers in National and International journals and few training manuals as author and co-author. He published more than 10 scientific articles and few extension manuals and booklets.
About The Book
The book was prepared by compiling articles contributed by various experts from central fisheries institutes and state fisheries colleges. In this book, articles related to advanced methods being practiced in aquaculture were included. The edited book contains 15 number of Chapters covering, Coastal and Brackish water aquaculture, aquafarming systems in India, ornamental fish breeding, all male red tilapia production, culture and seed production of mud crab, shrimp, seabass, shrimps, polychaetes, groupers, pompano, micro algal production, cage culture, RAS, Bio-floc technology, Aquaponics and feed production. All these techniques are emphasizing advance cultures techniques in various aquatic animals. Each and every article is narrating elaborately about techniques involved in production of various fish and shellfishes. The chapters are written in simple language and easy to understand by the readers. The book will serve as a handbook not only for the fisheries and allied sciences students for their curriculum and competitive examinations but also for the aqua farmers who wish to venture into advanced aquaculture practices.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement v
Preface vii
1. Coastal and Brackish Water Aquaculture in India 1
V.S. Chandrasekaran
2. Aqua Farming Systems in India 17
D. Ravindra Kumar Reddy and R. Ram Mohan
3. Breeding and Culture of Ornamental Fish and Aquarium Keeping 31
R. Ram Mohan
4. All Male Fingerling Production of Red Tilapia 53
P. Chidambaram
5. Culture of Mud Crab Scylla Species 59
Ravindra Sontakke and Harsha Haridas
6. Farming of Asian Seabass (Lates calcarifer) in India: Present Status
and Way Forward 73
M. Kailasam, Pankaj A. Patil, Tanveer Hussain, Dani Thomas,
Aritra Bera, R. Subburaj, G. Thiagarajan and D. Raja Babu
7. Seed Production and Culture of Shrimps 87
C.P. Balasubramanian, P.S. Shyne Anand and K.K. Vijayan
x
8. Development of Production System for Mud Worm Polychaete,
Marphysa gravelyi 111
S. Kannappan, S. Sivagnanam, C.P. Balasubramanian and K.K. Vijayan
9. Formulation and Preparation of Fish and Shrimp Feed 121
J. Ambasankar, Syamadayal and K.P. Kumaraguru Vasagam
10. Live Feed Culture: Micro Algal Production and Preparation
of Algal Concentrates 129
Biji Xavier, Ritesh Ranjan, Sekar Megarajan and Shubhadeep Ghosh
11. Broodstock Development and Seed Production of Indian Pompano
and Grouper 147
Ritesh Ranjan, Sekar Megarajan, Biji Xavier, Chinni Bathina and
Shubhadeep Ghosh
12. Culture of Marine Finfishes: Cage and Pond-Based Culture for
Augmenting Fish Production 169
Sekar Megarajan, Ritesh Ranjan, Biji Xavier, P. Shiva, R.D. Suresh
and Shubhadeep Ghosh
13. Design and Construction of Biofloc Production Systems 181
M. Menaga, S. Felix and A. Gopalakannan
14. Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems 191
Ramesh Rathod
15. Aquaponics: A New Emerging Aquaculture Technology
Integrated with Hydroponics 201
A. Devivaraprasad Reddy, Ch. Bala Krishna, T. Vijaya Nirmala,
E. Karuna Sree and D. Chinnam Naidu
Colour Plates I-XX
Index 211