The Hindu Business Line : Call to develop Karnataka reservoir areas as aquaculture corridors

THE Director of Vydehi Institute of Biotech Sciences and former Vice-Chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Dr K.V. Devaraj, has stressed the need for developing reservoir areas as "aquaculture corridors".

Inaugurating a national workshop on "Strategies for fisheries development in the next decade," organised by the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and Professional Fisheries Graduates' Forum, at College of Fisheries in Mangalore on Friday, he suggested that command area development authorities be approached to tap resources in the reservoir areas and to develop them as "aquaculture corridors".

Workshop could suggest to Government on setting up a Reservoir Fisheries Development Agency (RFDA) to foster development of reservoir fisheries sector.

He stated that private entrepreneurs should be encouraged to take up seed production as the non-availability of seeds of some species is causing problems in aquaculture.

In Assam, private entrepreneurs, who have taken up production of seeds of various species, have been exporting them to other States after meeting their own requirements.

There should be a change in approach as far as reservoir fisheries is concerned. Dr Devaraj cited poor management practices; arbitrary stocking without regularity; lack of adherence to stocking parameters such as species, size, number stocked, time of stocking, and harvesting schedule; and non-adherence to culture-based fisheries in small, medium and large reservoirs as some reasons for low yield.

Dr Devaraj said that approach should be different for each form of fisheries and they should be based on the availability of water resources and ecological conditions.

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