Status of crustacean fishery resources -Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

From the economic and industrial point of view, edible marine crustaceans consisting of shrimps, lobsters are the most important constituents of the commercial fish landings in the country. Major portion of the landings was exported in various product forms. Investigations on resources and biology of shrimps, lobsters and other important crustaceans were initiated at the CMFRI in 1947 and since then, valuable data had been collected. Information on catch and effort, composition of landings, species-wise details on age and growth, food and feeding, maturation and spawning, migration and population characteristics for shrimps, lobsters and crabs were collected from fish landing centers along the Indian coast. This voluminous database has provided a strong foundation for assessment of edible crustacean stock, so as to suggest appropriate regulatory measures for effective management of these resources. A comprehensive account on the fishery and biological characteristics on edible crustaceans, and management options for their optimum exploitation based on the research carried out by CMFRI is presented here

Lobster farming in India

Spiny or rock lobsters are low volume and high value fisheries which support some of the most valuable marine resource worldwide. India, earns an approximate US $ 15 million each year through export of lobsters, mostly to Southeast Asian countries and Japan, although less than, 3,000 tonnes is landed annually. The potential for increasing the yield from the wild fisheries is limited, as the stock is subjected to extreme fishing pressure and is nearing their long term equilibrium yield. Hence, the most imaginative management strategy seems to be increasing the production through population enhancement and aquaculture. Recent success in rearing the phyllosoma larvae, has significantly improved the chances of captive breeding and seed production in spiny lobsters

Sea ranching of spiny lobsters

Sea ranching of spiny lobster

Review of prospects for lobster farming

Capture fisheries have reached a peak in production, and stock enhancement or aquaculture appears to be the only hope of meeting the ever increasing demand for high value seafood like lobsters. For aquaculture, the pressing need is to solve the dilemma of promoting expansion while at the same time demanding the development of environmentally sound technologies and farming practices (Mace, 1997). Lobsters have excellent market demand and price and especially live lobsters are the most preferred. Customers in affluent countries are ready to pay more for fresh seafood. Lobsters are exported in different forms; live, frozen tails, whole frozen, whole-chilled, wholecooked and frozen and as lobster meat. The live lobster trade increased from 1.3 % during 1993-94 to 12.7% during 2003- 04 period

Commercial prospects for farming spiny lobsters

Tropical spiny lobsters are fast growing and highly adaptable to captive condition

System and method for determining triage categories

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Overview of lobster farming- Winter School on Recent Advances in Breeding and Larviculture of Marine Finfish and Shellfish

Lobsters are high valued seafood with well established export markets around the world and form extremely important fisheries in many countries. World’s production of palinurid lobsters mostly originate from Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, Brazil, South Africa, USA and Mexico. The annual world catch of lobsters is 2, 33,825 t (2005) valued at US $ 2108 million. Total landing of spiny lobsters is 71925 t (2004)

Lobster Fishery and Management

Lobsters are one of the highly priced crustaceans in India and are in great demand as a delicacy in the internal market and as a foreign exchange earner in export market. Gourmets the world over prize this crustacean as the most delectable. As a result, lobsters are now fished indiscriminately and the population at least in certain areas is threatened. Most females either don't get a chance to reproduce or are caught while they are breedin