Industrial Fisheries

Besides giving an outline of the beginning of fisheries industrialization, technological innovations responsible for it; setting up of modern fishing industry to put the world fisheries on commercial ventures with resulting oceans leading to collapse of fisheries and the shift from capture to culture fisheries and aquaculture development have been dealt in this book. The impetus for growing aquaculture, particularly, in developing countries, such as recent technological innovations in aquaculture, especially on reproductive technologies, disease control, feed technologies, holding systems and as a tool for rural development have been included in the book in addition to giving bionomics and prevalent culture procedures of the sea fishes, like yellowtail, sweetfish, salmon, eel, halibut, sea bream, trout, sea weed, oyster, marine pear and ranching of tuna. The culture practices of eurihalline fishes and crustaceans, like sea bass (Lates calcarifer), (Scylla serrata) in various South East Asian countries including India were described in details. Shrimp farming has been dealt in a separate chapter of this book, in view of its high commercial importance as foreign exchange earner by many developing countries. Among freshwater aquaculture, common carp culture in ponds, pens and production of common carp seed from small scale hatchery have been outlined in this book. Indian fisheries, in global fisheries scenerio have been discussed by including oil sardine, mackerel, Bombay duck, skipjack, ribbon fish, pomfret, elasmobranches, sole, prawn and shell fisheries under marine fisheries sector. Under culture fisheries, culture of Indian major carps, prawn, live fishes and their role in income generation in rural and urban areas have find place in this book. As an integral part of industrial fisheries, post harvesting technology and processing of fish for preservation and various from of value added product preparation in the fish processing industries to give fisheries, a real industrial status have also been given in the book elaborately.