Working Group Report on - Haryana Kisan Ayog

slowly restoring the aquatic biodiversity. Gradually these resources shall be helpedto become source of quality brood stock and fish seed supply in the State.Pen culture and cage culture programs for seed rearing can be taken up in the lakes,even riverine and canal resources. Unobtrusive and non-consumptive runningwater aquaculture systems for utilizing the extensive canal networks for fish cultureshall be put in place. High intensity cage culture systems may be another option incanal systems.3.3. Diversification and Intensification in Pond ResourcesCommon property village ponds and privately owned farm ponds shall diversify thecandidate culture species in the coming years in order to ensure continuedeconomic profitability and ecological viability. In addition to the Indian majorCarps, potential new species like Pangasianodon, Scampi, and Indian Magur beadded to the basket. Simultaneously, the culture systems shall become moreintensified especially in the privately owned ponds in order to maximize the yield /returns from unit area. Multiple stocking and multiple harvesting, stocking of stuntedfingerlings, feed based culture in village ponds, introduction of re-circulatoryaquaculture systems, polyculture are ways of intensification. These are discussed insome detail in the next Chapter.3.4. Sustainable Aquaculture in Waterlogged and Salt affected AreasThe overall approach in the ecologically sensitive new resources shall be long termresource sustainability and optimal economic returns as against short termmaximization of monetary gains at the cost of ecosystem collapse. As thetechnologies for culture of high value candidate species like Tiger Shrimp, White legshrimp, Sea bass and Scampi are very promising, their field demonstration andlarge scale adoption by farmers shall be done following a mission mode approachwherein provisions for seed supply, feed supply, credit support, continued technicalsupport, market support and training shall be bundled and their delivery effective.3.5. Self-sufficiency in Quality Seed ProductionThe most critical input for achieving the target production is timely availability ofadequate and quality seed of required candidate species at an affordable price. The( 32 )