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Table 1. Channa species and categories of threat in Indian rivers and reservoirs (IUCN 1994, CAMP 1998).
42 June 2010
Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Orissa, Assam, Andhra Pradesh,
Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka (Chakrabarthy 2006).
Murrel culture is about four decades old in our country
with the first demonstration on the Madras Sunkesula fish
farm (now in AP) by the State Fisheries Department. Fur-
ther attempts made by the State Fisheries Department of
Hyderabad and Bombay and CIFRI Bhadra Centre (Kar-
nataka) have not produced tangible results. Fish farmers in
India are unable to culture murrels because of non-availabil-
ity of fingerlings and lack of feeding and culture techniques.
Fish farmers who have attempted murrel farming have not
succeeded because they have sustained severe mortality from
Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS).
Even though giant murrel culture has a wider scope, it
has not yet become popular for various reasons. Fish farm-
ers in India are not familiar with brood fish nutrition, fin-
gerling production, larval rearing and growout culture. In Striped murrel - Channa striatus
other words fingerlings and feed are the two major problems
in murrel farming. The latter is not yet standardized because
murrels are carnivorous, piscivorous and cannibalistic. A Extension. To popularize giant murrel culture among fish
technology package for striped murrel culture was devel- farmers, the CARE research team collected giant murrel fin-
oped by the CARE research team with financial assistance gerlings from Bhavanisagar reservoir, with assistance from
from the Department of Science and Technology, New Del- fishermen using dragnets. The fingerlings were transported
hi, Government of India (SSP/RD/001/96). The technology to the CARE Aquafarm using plastic containers. They were
developed was successfully transferred to fish farmers with reared in cement tanks, 4.5 m×4 m×2 m, for a period of one
assistance from Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, week during which they were fed beef liver and semi-moist
Government of India (BT/PR1892/SPD/16/137/2000) by the feed dough (Table 2).
research team of the Center for Aquaculture Research and After one week, 200 uniform sized fingerlings were se-
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Red line mur-
rel - Channa
micropeltes
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Fig. 1. Length-weight relationship of C.marulius cultured at
CARE Aquafarm.
Harvest of giant murrels
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