Breeding and Hybridization of Food Fishes
by Biswas K P
ISBN: 9789386615534
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Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 9995.00
Biblio : xx+260 p., 25 cm
Author Profile
Dr. K.P. Biswas, M.Sc, Ph.D, D.F.Sc. (Bombay), E.F. (West Germany), F.Z.S, F.A.B.S. (Kolkata), took interest in induced fish breeding in 1957 looking at the success of Dr. Hiralal Chaudhuri in Angul Fish farm in Odisha. In 1960, the author succeeded to induce a pair of mrigal (Indian major carp) in Balasore, Odisha by injecting fish pituitary hormone. Thereafter from 1961 onwards he induced a number of Indian major carps for breeding in the field and in controlled temperature in the laboratory.
About The Book
This book embraces nineteen chapters, beginning with reproduction and mechanism of multiplication with the basic informations. The physiology of breeding mechanism and the environment for fish breeding covered the natural breeding of different varieties of fishes. Under the manipulated breeding, the different types of inducement have been described along with mode of selection of parent fishes and breeding techniques adopted in a number of food fishes. Broodstock development, breeding and seed p
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement vii
Preface ix
Introduction xvii
1. Reproduction and Mechanism of Multiplication 1
2. Natural Breeding of Fin Fishes 15
3. Manipulated Breeding of Fin Fishes 41
4. Breeding of Grass Carp and Silver Carp 89
5. Breeding of Sea Bass 93
6. Breeding in Fish Culture 117
7. Genetics in Reproductive Biology 127
8. Hybridization 143
9. Hybridization in Fish Culture 145.
10. Hybridization of Fish in India–Asia 153
11. Fish Hybridization in North America 163
12. Commercial H
