1980 - National Institute of Oceanography

3.4
Biological Oceanography
3.4.1 Survey of biological resources in the seas around India
3.4.2 Coastal aquaculture
3.4.3 Biogeographical, ecological and experimental studies on phytoplankton
and zooplankton from the Indian Ocean
3.4.4 Biology of ecosystem under different environmental stresses
3.4.5 Marine fouling and wood-boring organisms
Areas of work in biological oceanography are productivity, planktonology,
benthic biology, microbiology, aquaculture and distribution of marine organisms, their
interaction with each other and with the evnvironment. Other major activities include
mangrove and seaweed ecology and physiological adaptations in marine organisms. The
progress made under each project during the year is as follows:
3 4-1 Survey of biological resources in the seas around India
1. Primary production
Studies on primary production, Chl. a and paniculate organic production
were made along the latitude 5°30' N and longitude 82° to 98° E (16 stations) in
the Andaman Sea (21 stations) and from 6 anchored stations in ;he Hooghly estuary
and at the Mahanadi river mouth. The results obtained are tabulated below:
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