WORKING PAPERS - BOBP/WP/60
Pen Culture of Shrimp in Chilaw, Sri Lanka
by
Dirk Reyntjens
Aquaculturist (Consultant)
Bay of Bengal Programme
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WORKING PAPERS - BOBP/WP/60 Pen Culture of Shrimp in Chilaw, Sri Lankaby |
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Executing Agency: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Funding Agencies: SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Small-Scale Fisherfolk Communities in the Bay of Bengal Madras, India, April 1989 |
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This paper describes trials with pen culture of tiger prawns, carried out between 1986 and 1988 in Merawela village in the Chilaw lagoon of Sri Lanka. The trials were conducted by the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) in association with the Ministry of Fisheries, Government of Sri Lanka, and the local Social Development Organization, an agency established by the Ministry of Fisheries to encourage development schemes in fishing villages. The Chilaw pen culture subproject, and this paper which reports on it, have been sponsored by the BOBP’s project “Small-Scale Fisherfolk Communities in the Bay of Bengal” (GCP/RAS/118/MUL). The project is jointly funded by SIDA (Swedish International Development Authority) and DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency) and executed by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). It covers seven countries bordering the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The main goals of the project, which commenced in 1987, are to develop demonstrate and promote appropriate technologies and methodologies to improve the conditions of small-scale fisherfolk communities in member countries. |
1. BACKGROUND
2. ORGANIZATIONAL SET-UP
3. TECHNICAL ASPECTS
4. RESULTS
5. RELATIONS WITH THE SDO
6. DISCUSSION
7. PEN CULTURE AT CHILAW — GLIMPSES (PHOTOGRAPHS)
8. RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDICES
1. Project location
2. Temperature and salinity variations at site
3. Rainfull pattern in Chilaw
4. Summary record of nursery rearing
5. Summary of production results
6. By-catch composition from the pens
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