WORKING PAPERS - BOBP/WP/49
Pen Culture Of Shrimp By Fisherfolk:The BOBP Experience In Killai,Tamil Nadu, Indi
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Edeltraud Drewes
Socio-Economist Bay of Bengal Programme
G. Rajappan
Senior Research Assistant Tamil Nadu Department of Fisheries
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WORKING PAPERS - BOBP/WP/49 Pen Culture Of Shrimp By Fisherfolk:The BOBP Experience In Killai,Tamil Nadu, Indiby |
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Executing Agency: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Funding Agency: SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Development of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Bay of Bengal. Madras, India, April 1987. |
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This paper describes a shrimp pen culture pilot activity at Killai, Tamil Nadu, India under which selected fishermen operated small-sized shrimp pens, applying a technology package for KilIai conditions devised earlier during 21 months of technical trials by the small-scale fisheries project of the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP). The paper discusses the project’s socio-economic and technical approach, the problems faced during implementation, the results, and some recommendations for better profitability. A BOBP socio-economist and a senior administrative officer of the Tamil Nadu Directorate of Fisheries were responsible for the overall planning, implementation and monitoring. Technical inputs were provided by a BOBP aquaculture technologist. The field team at the project site consisted of two aquaculture technologists (biologists) of the TNDF, while a social worker engaged by BOBP liaised with fisherfolk and the technology team. This is the third paper on the Killai project. BOBP/WP/35 discussed the findings of 21 months of technical trials during 1982-84, while BOBP/WP/32 discussed a techno-economic end social feasibility study of shrimp pen culture, based on field surveys in the region conducted late 1983, after the technical trials. |
PREFACE
1. BACKGROUND
2. OBJECTIVES AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
3. FISHERFOLK’S PARTICIPATION IN TECHNOLOGY TRIALS
4. DETERMINING THE TECHNICAL PACKAGE AND CULTURE CYCLE PLAN
GLIMPSES INTO THE KILLAI PROJECT (PICTURES)
5. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITY
6. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
6.1 Yield, seed and feed
6.2 Costs and earnings
6.3 Social acceptability
7. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE ACTION
1. Location of project site
2. Lay out of pens and happas
3. Killai backwaters: Areas hydrologically suitable for pen culture
4. Annual culture cycle plan for nature and hatchery-supplied seeds
5a. Form for technical records of shrimp production
5b. Form for harvesting and sales records
6a. Quantity and value of shrimps produced-Summer Crop 1985
6b. Quantity and value of shrimps produced-Winter Crop 1985
7. Costs and earnings of a 1 ha shrimp pen unit
8. Culture economics - sensitivity analysis
9. Feed costs for nursing and culture of shrimps
Annexure: Background material on shrimp culture operations given to the fishermen