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Environmental–Economical Aspects of Protonibea diacanthus: A Heavily Priced Marine Fish of India

Environmental–Economical Aspects of Protonibea diacanthus: A Heavily Priced Marine Fish of India A comprehensive review of Protonibea diacanthus (PD) focused on India’s coastal waters was conducted, with the aim to improve understanding of its spatio-temporal distribution and scope of aquaculture/mariculture. PD is one of the most commercially important fish due to its food value and medicinal properties of its body parts. As this fish is usually exported from India, occasional catch yielding in instantaneous higher income (reaching 3.45 crores INR for 20 tonnes catch per unit effort) has caused exhilaration in the regional fishing community. PD is caught occasionally during regular fishing operations in different parts of the Indian maritime states with a higher number of catch events along the west coast (maximum in Maharashtra) in comparison to the east coast (maximum in West Bengal). In context to fishing gears, PD is caught by the Indian fishermen using bottom trawls, handlines, and gillnets, and purse seines. The swim bladder of PD has a higher medicinal value, thereby the selling price of dried male air bladder has reached up to ~ 40,000 INR/kg. The literature review confirmed that inshore migration of PD is driven by the seasonal availability of food, and river influxinduced low saline conditions. Seasonally, the post-southwest monsoon has been observed as the productive season for PD fishery in India. Considering the rising demand in the international market, this study recommends initiation of aquaculture/mariculture of PD in India, which requires species-specific research, technology development towards captive breeding, seed production, larval rearing, feed management, relevant post-production industrial processing, and a proper marketing strategy. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section B Biological Sciences Springer Journals

Environmental–Economical Aspects of Protonibea diacanthus: A Heavily Priced Marine Fish of India

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A comprehensive review of Protonibea diacanthus (PD) focused on India’s coastal waters was conducted, with the aim to improve understanding of its spatio-temporal distribution and scope of aquaculture/mariculture. PD is one of the most commercially important fish due to its food value and medicinal properties of its body parts. As this fish is usually exported from India, occasional catch yielding in instantaneous higher income (reaching 3.45 crores INR for 20 tonnes catch per unit effort) has caused exhilaration in the regional fishing community. PD is caught occasionally during regular fishing operations in different parts of the Indian maritime states with a higher number of catch events along the west coast (maximum in Maharashtra) in comparison to the east coast (maximum in West Bengal). In context to fishing gears, PD is caught by the Indian fishermen using bottom trawls, handlines, and gillnets, and purse seines. The swim bladder of PD has a higher medicinal value, thereby the selling price of dried male air bladder has reached up to ~ 40,000 INR/kg. The literature review confirmed that inshore migration of PD is driven by the seasonal availability of food, and river influxinduced low saline conditions. Seasonally, the post-southwest monsoon has been observed as the productive season for PD fishery in India. Considering the rising demand in the international market, this study recommends initiation of aquaculture/mariculture of PD in India, which requires species-specific research, technology development towards captive breeding, seed production, larval rearing, feed management, relevant post-production industrial processing, and a proper marketing strategy.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences India Section B Biological Sciences – Springer Journals

Published: Jun 1, 2023

Keywords: Arabian Sea; Aquaculture; Bay of Bengal; Blackspotted croaker; Pharmaceutical Products

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