The present study was conducted in Paribasudeipur village of Khurda district of Odisha in May,2012. A simple random sample of 30 farmers was selected and the participatory rural appraisaltool was applied in order to enable them for identification of their problems relating to fish farming in that village. Six key informants were also selected. Rank Based Quotient (RBQ) was estimated both for the farmers and the key informants for the identified problems. The study reveals that the farmers are facing technological as well as infrastructural problems. High cost of feed, nonavailabilityofqualityseedsand biologicalhazardsare themaintechnologicalproblems.Infrastructuralproblemsincludeproblemofcredit, marketing, ownership of pond, poor technical skill and weak extensionlinkage. Scientists mayinvestigatemoreabout thelocationalproblemsrelatingto technologyand accordinglysuggestfordesigningthe experimentbyprovidingneedbasedsolutions.Infrastructurefacilityforthe farmers is equallyimportantforproperimplementationofscientificaquaculture practices.

Keyword: The present study was conducted in Paribasudeipur village of Khurda district of Odisha in May,2012

REVIEW PATENTING APPLICATIONS IN MARINE SCIENCE & BIOTECHNOLOGY

A. S. Ninawe a a * and S. T. Indulkar

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Highlights: PATENTING APPLICATIONS IN MARINE SCIENCE
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Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology sector is expanding rapidly and addressing the grand challenges towards green growth with economic and social benefits for population health, food and fuel security across the globe. The present market growth of marine biotechnology is still in a nascent stage and accounts for a tiny percentage of the overall biotechnology market. Global Marine Biotechnology market is expected to reach US $4.1 billion by 2015 (OECD, 2012). Many Universities and Institutes including Fisheries Research Institutes in India are working in Mari culture, marine bio-prospecting, biotechnology, and fisheries management devices and fisheries products development giving emphasis on IP protection of the resources generated through commercialization of technologies. A number of marine natural products that have found their way into pharmacies recently require scaled-up process. Despite lesser attention paid to marine natural products historically, there are notable marine-derived bio products commercially available and IP protected.

Keyword: Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology sector is expanding rapidly

STUDIES ON GENETIC VARIABILITY OF THREE POPULATIONS OF GOLDEN MAHSEER (TOR PUTITORA) USING MICROSATELLITE MARKERS

Rohit Kumar, Lalit Singh, Lata Sharma, Vijay Kumar Singh, Prabhati Kumari Sahoo, Ashoktaru Barat* and Atul K. Singh

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Highlights: STUDIES ON GENETIC VARIABILITY OF THREE POPULATIONS
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The Golden mahseer (Tor putitora) is a prized species for both food and sport in several areas of upland Indian water bodies. But, due to, its reduction in population sizes in recent times, it needs attention for conservation. The present study was undertaken to assess the genetic variability of geographically isolated three populations using 6 highly polymorphic microsatellite markers. The number of alleles per locus ranged from 5 to 12 with an average frequency of 8.33. The mean expected heterozygosity was 0.78 and observed heterozygosity was 0.64. All the studied loci were polymorphic with mean PIC value of 0.75. It was observed that a considerable amount of genetic variation persists in these populations and there is no threat on these populations.

Keyword: The Golden mahseer (Tor putitora) is a prized species for both food and sport in several areas of upland Indian water bodies

DEMONSTRATION OF CARP SEED PRODUCTION AND REARING IN REMOTE AREA : A CASE OF A FARMER OF BADABISHOLA, MAYURBHANJ DISTRICT, ODISHA

B. C. Mohapatra, N. K. Barik, D. Majhi, S. K. Mahanta and H. Sahu

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Highlights: DEMONSTRATION OF CARP SEED PRODUCTION AND REARING IN REMOTE AREA
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Availability of good quality and quantity fish seed was the main constraint for aquaculturedevelopment of a remote village at Badabishola, Mayurbhanj District, Odisha State. This issue was addressed by the ICAR-CIFA through technology transfer under a project funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. In the village one farmer having brood rearing facility and overhead water supply system, adopted for FRP carp hatchery operation through a cooperative society. With the help of the technology eight carp breeding programmes were undertaken producing 56 lakh spawn (47 lakh rohu, 6 lakh grass carp and 3 lakh common carp spawn) in the year 2011-2012. A portion of spawn was reared for 15-20 days in nursery ponds for fry production, which had produced 5.6, 0.96 and 0.63 lakh fry of rohu, grass carp and common carp respectively. These fry were once again reared for 3-4 months in rearing ponds which had produced fingerlings of 3.15, 0.38 and 0.3 lakhs of rohu, grass carp and common carp respectively. Through these activities the farmer could add Rs. 11,044 from hatchery operation and Rs. 2, 55,241from seed rearing to his annual income in 2011-12.

Keyword: Availability of good quality and quantity fish seed was the main constraint for aquaculturedevelopment of a remote village at Badabishola

IN-SILICO ANALYSIS AND HOMOLOGY MODELING OF CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUB UNIT I FROM INDIAN MAJOR CARP, LABEO ROHITA

Sukanta Kumar Pradhan and Lakshman Sahoo

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Highlights: IN-SILICO ANALYSIS AND HOMOLOGY MODELING OF CYTOCHROME
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Labeo rohita is the popular table fish in the whole Indian sub-continent. Cytochrome c oxidasesub unit I (COX/COI) is the largest protein coding gene in the metazoan mitochondrial genome and COI is the most frequently studied region of the teleost mitochondrial genome. It is the terminal member of the respiratory chain catalyzing the reduction of dioxygen to water byferrocytochrome C. In this study, COI of L. rohita (56.86KDa) has been characterized, and the 3Dstructure was predicted by using odeller version9.12 byhomologymodeling.The secondary structure has been predicted using PSIPREDand TMHMMserver,and the predicted modelhasbeenvalidatedin RAMPAGE server.The proteinstatisticswascarried out byusingProtopramtoolin Expasyserver.The predicted 3-Dmodelshowedthat 99.8% ofresidues haveF and Ψanglein the favoredand allowedregions. Itwasfoundto be a transmembraneprotein andconsistedofan N-terminalsignalpeptide. The isoelectric focusingpoint, instabilityindex,aliphaticindex,grandaveragehydropathicity,extinctioncoefficient,absorbance and numberofnegativelychargedand positivelychargedaminoacids were;6.05,26.52,109.81,0.749,121180,2.142,25 and16respectively, revealingthe structure and propertiesofCOIprotein. TheCOX/CO-Iprotein sequences ofCatlacatla, Cirrhinus mrigala, Labeo rohita,C.cirrhosusandDanioreriowerealso takenforthe divergencestudyandmutationanalysis.

Keyword: Labeo rohita is the popular table fish in the whole Indian sub-continent

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