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Development in India: Status and Task Ahead" designed and published by
Indian Institute of Management, Ahedabad (1987) was an outcome of a
National Workshop on "Formulation of Brackishwater Fisheries Project
for international bilateral funding", held in Madras during l985. This
manual containing 19 papers covered all aspects of ‘development of
Fisheries Sector. However, in the shrimp culture view point, the
papers by Dwivedi: "Prawn culture: challenges and possibilities";
Chandrasekar: "Brackishwater Prawn and Fish culture in Kerala"; Silas
and Rao: "Fish and Shellfish Production through Aquaculture in the
Backwaters of India"; Natarajan: "Penaeid Shrimp Production
Possibilities under Traditional and Intensive culture Systems in
India"; Bhakta: "Brackishwater Pond/Farm Design and Economics of
Operation"; Hameed .Ali and .Alikunhi: "Regional characteristics of
culture: patterns in iBrackishwater Farming of 1Prawns"; Nair: "Large
Scale Prawn Farming - A Study"; and Sakthivel: "Organizational set up
required for Prawn Farming in India" are worth mentioning.
Proceedings of the seminar on estuarine management - its
dynamics, chemistry, environment, management and biology' - Yheld at
Trivandrum (Balakrishnan Nair, 1987), through 102 papers reviewed the
state of art on the subject and formulated strategies for future
development. A few' among them are that of Sakthivel on "shrimp
aquaculture, a fast growing dynamic industry" and Silas on "Mangroves
and fisheries - management strategies".
The seinar on "Status and prospects of brackishwater
aquaculture in Orissa" held in 1988 (CIBA, Spl. Publication, 1988) has
brought out significant contributions in shrimp farming wherein
Natarajan evaluated and analysed the traditional, semi-intensive and
formulated feed based shrimp farming systems and their production
possibilities in India.
The recent annotated bibliography of' commercial1y' important
prawns and prawn fisheries of India (CMI-‘RI, Spl. Publi No. 47, 1989)
has dealt with 121 publications on shrimp culture.