A bumper harvest of pearl spot (Karimeen) by a tribal community in the cage culture project of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has left them ecstatic and ready to ring in the new year with joy. CMFRI had started the cage culture of pearl spot eight months ago under the Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) of the Government of India.udDuring harvest, the tribal community in Thandassery Colony in Maradu Municipality got pearl spot with an average weight of 200 to 300 gram from two GI pipe constructed cages. A number of 750 fingerlings of pearl spot was stocked in the cages at a density of 20 numbers per square metre. Pearl Plus, the feed developed by CMFRI for pearl spot farming was used in the cage culture which was carried out by the institute with the participation of five families in the tribal community.
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