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WORKING PAPERS - BOBP/WP/73 Small-Scale Culture of the Flat Oyster ( Ostrea Folium) in Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysiaby |
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Executing Agency: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Bay of Bengal Programme Madras, India, 1991 |
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This paper describes the small-scale culture of the flat oyster (Ostreafolium) in Pulau Langkawi, Kedah (between 1979 and 1980), which was part of a programme aimed at developing oyster culture along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The trials were initially managed by a Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) field biologist with help from the fishermen and their families and with support from the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) and the Department of Fisheries, Malaysia. Acknowledgement is due to the Director General of Fisheries, Malaysia, Dato Shahrom bin Haji Abdul Majid for his kind support and permission to publish this paper, the Director of Research and Charles Angell for encouragement, guidance - and constructive criticism of the manuscript, and to Ruslan B Shamsuddin for information furnished on the project. |
1. INTRODUCTION
2. CULTURE METHOD
2.1 Description of the rafts
2.2 Site selection
2.3 Culture management
2.4 Rack culture
3. CULTURE CYCLES
3.1 Environmental parameters
3.2 Spat collection and seasons
3.3 Growth rates and grow-out period
3.4 Maintenance procedures
3.5 Manpower requirements
3.6 Harvesting methods
3.7 Yield
4. MARKETING
4.1 Oyster marketing chains in P. Langkawi
4.2 Oyster marketing strategy for P. Langkawi
5. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
5.1 Production and revenue
5.2 Investment and depreciation
5.3 Operating costs
5.4 Results
6. PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION
7. CONCLUSIONS
7.1 Technical aspects
7.2 Social aspects
7.3 Marketing
7.4 Economics
7.5 Alternatives
FIGURES
1. Oyster culture sites off Kampong Kelibang, Kedah, Pulau Langkawi
2. Plan of an oyster culture raft
3. Monthly changes in percentage of oysters in spawning condition
4. Salinity and temperature at Kampong Kelibang, P. Langkawi during 1990
5. Growth curves for three different sets of 0. folium during 1990
6. Effect of price and production on economic viability
TABLES
1. Breakdown of costs for the construction of culture rafts
2. Average number of oyster spat collected on test panels
3. Investment summary for production unit of five rafts
4. Operating costs for 0. folium culture (five raft enterprise)
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