Current and Emerging Trends in Aquaculture : Proceedings of the National Seminar, 14-16 February, 1995/edited by P.C. Thomas. 1998, 422 p., tables, $65.
Contents: I. Inaugural Session: 1. Presidential address by Prof. K. Pradhan, Vice-Chancellor, OUAT. 2. Inaugural address by H.E. Governor of Orissa & Chancellor, OUAT. 3. Key note address on emerging trends in aquaculture by Dr. P.V. Dehadrei, Deputy Director General, ICAR. II. Aqua Farming System: 1. Microbiological studies for sustained aqua-farming practices/S. Ayyappan. 2. Prospects of aquaculture development in the Loktak Lake of Manipur/H. Tombi Singh. 3. Salinity effect on growth of some important Penaeid Prawns of Ratnagiri/A.S. Pawase & Shakuntala Shenoy. 4. Influence of domestic sewage on fish and incidence of microbial population/M.L. Bhowmik. 5. Utilisation of shaded and uncared pond dykes for farming of medicinal and creeper plants/S.P. Rai. 6. Experimental study on the extent of variation in aquacultural experiments/A.K. Roy. 7. Aquacropping pattern in sewage-based Paddy Plots/A.K. Datta. 8. Studies on the effectiveness of different micronutrient formulations on planktonic diversity and growth/G.C. Rana. 9. Effects of water qualities & biogenic capacities on fish growth in freshwater ponds of Barrackpore (West Bengal/Poonam Prakash. 10. Culture of giant freshwater prawn macrobrachium rosenbergii--a case study/C. Vasudevappa. 11. Experimental farm trial on Penaeus merguiensis in Ratnagiri (Konkan Maharashtra)/A.S. Pawase & Shakuntala shenoy. 12. Amphibians of Bhopal division of Western Madhya Pradesh & prospects of their culture/K.K. Tiwari.
III. Seed Production Technology: 13. Emerging technologies in the seed production of Clarias batrachus(Magur)/G.R.M. Rao. 14. Carp seed raising in small backyard and kitchen ponds: a profitable technology package for tribal women/J.K. Jena. 15. An economic technique for sustained culture of Brine Shrimp, Artemia salina for small scale hatchery use/S.K. Majumdar. 16. A case study of recycling of water in carp hatchery at C.I.F.A. Kausalyaganga/S.C. Rath. 17. Effect of total alkalinity of water on carp seed production/S.D. Gupta. 18. On improved methods of major carp brood stock maintenanace in the fish seed farms/G.A. Shirgur and R.P. Rajam. 19. Prawn seed resources of South Konkan Coast (Maharashtra State, West Coast of India/K.J. Chaudhari and D.R. Jalihal. 20. Preparation of wet-lab and nursery ponds for rearing spawn of fullsib groups to raise fry/fingerlings for selective breeding of Rohu 'Labeo
Rohita (Ham)/J.N. Saha. 21. Carp spawn production in Sarakana Village--an emerging rural trade/Radheyshyam and S.K. Sarkar. 22. A note on the breeding performance of farn: and river stocks of Rohu, Labeo Rohita (Hamilton) for selection purpose/Smita Lenka. 23. Emerging Technologies in the seed production of Macrobrachium malcolmsonii (H.M. Edwards)/D.R. Kanaujia. 24. Advances in the seed production technology of major carps/S.D. Gupta. 25. Emerging technology on the seed production of Macrobrachium rosenbergii/K. Janardhana Rao.
IV. Biotechnology in Aquaculture: 26. Advances in fish genetics and its application in aquaculture with special reference to India/P.V.G.K. Reddy. 27. Length-weight relationship of Notopterus notopterus (Pallas)/K. Kalita and R.K. Rath. 28. Algae in aquaculture/S. Nayak and S. Padhi. 29. ALP-ACP ratio for indicating biochemical stress in tropical fish Liza parsia/B.C. Mohapatra and S. Shanmugam. 30. On the performance of PIT (passive integrated transponder) tag for marking fishes--Rohu/Kanta Das Mahapatra. 31. Effect of ecdysial cycle on the semen and spermatophore production of the Indian white prawn Penaeus indicus (H.M. Edwards)/A. Muthuraman and K.G. Adiyodi. 32. Haematological variations in Channa spp./Amita Saxena and O.P. Saxena. 33. Length-weight relationship and condition factor of scale carp (Cyprinus Carpio Var. communis) fingerlings from a polyculture pond/A.C. Pandey and M.K. Sharma. 34. Fecundity of the freshwater fish, Labeo boggut (Sykes) from Bhosga Reservoir, Gulbarga/Manohar Patil and R.S. Kulkarni. 35. Histophysiological study of Thymus of an Indian Teleostei: Gobiidae Pseudopocryptes lanceolatus (Bloch and Schneider)/S.K. De and S.G. Pal. 36. Activation of immature testes of Japanese Eel, Anguilla japonica by a single injection of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin: a light microscopical study/D.N. Saksena. 37. Comparative studies on the fecundity of Macrobrachium dayanum (Henderson, 1983) collected from two ecologically different aquatic systems/Reena Tiwari and T.A. Qureshi. 38. Stock assessment of Pinctada fucata in the Gulf of Kutch, causes of depletion & measures to protect their population/Y.B. Raval.
V. Nutrition and Health Management: 39. Role of selected feeds in captive culture of Indian Pearl Mussel Lamellidens marginalis (Lamarck)/Gayatri Misra. 40. Growth experiments on Penaeus merguiensis and Metapenaeus monoceros from Ratnagiri using different pelletted feeds/A.S. Pawase and Shakuntala Shenoy. 41. Incidences of bacterial Gill disease in Cirrhinus mrigala (Ham)/Yogendra Prasad and T.A. Qureshi. 42. Haematological studies of Clarias batrachus (L) under normal health and fungus infected condition/S. Banik and M.L. Ghosh. 43. Recent advances in carp nutrition and diet development studies in India: an overview/P.K. Mukhopadhyay.
VI. Aquaculture Economics: 44. Economics of fish production in relation to the socio-economic status of fish farmer/M. Ranadhir. 45. Collection and supply of sea weed Sargassum sp. plays an important role in economics of Sikka fishermen/A.D. Dholakia. 46. Comparative studies in the economic analysis of rice-fish farming and only Paddy Farming in Andhra Pradesh/A. Sitarama Raju and N. Srirami Reddy. 47. Socio economic status of fish culture in Assam/Omeo K. Dutta. 48. A study on economics of fish production in Hasanpur Block, Samastipur Dist., (Bihar)/R.K.P. Singh.
VII. Aquaculture Extension and Entrepreneurship: 49. Present status and future strategies for aquaculture extension in India/M.K. Bandyopadhyay. 50. Impact of freshwater prawn fisheries in rural scenario/Sk. Md. Jamil Ahemad. 51. The extent of utilisation of different sources of information for fishermen/B.P. Mishra and R. Mishra. 52. Role of women in fish processing and marketing along Gopalpur coast of Orissa/B.P. Mishra and R. Mishra. 53. Community aquaculture utilizing Swampy water bodies in rural area through adaptive management practices--a case study in Orissa/Radheshyam. 54. Need for modification of composite fish culture technology in West Bengal as perceived by the fish farmers/Utpal Bhaumik and S.K. Saha. 55. Aquaculture entrepreneurship in rural development--role of financial institutions/S.C. Pathak and M.R. Dandekar.
VIII. Aquaculture Policy and Environmental Issue: 56. Aquaculture policy and planning in India/J.V.H. Dixitulu. 57. Environmental management in coastal aquaculture/S.K. Mohanty. 58. Seasonal variations in the composition and density of prawn population of lower lake, Bhopal/S. Manohar and T.A. Qureshi. 59. Seasonal distribution and abundance of macrobenthos in relation to certain hydrobiological features of Gopalpur Creek, Bay of Bengal/D. Satapathy and H.K. Sahu. IX. Recommendations of the Seminar: Author Index. Subject Index.