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Recent training workshop on artificial breeding and larval rearing of Holothuria scabra in Sri Lanka

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Recent training workshop on artificial breeding and larval rearing of Holothu...
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Sri Lanka’s beache-de-mer industry has a long history, and includes around 21 commercial sea cucumber species, most of them reported to be overexploited (Dissanayake and Stefansson 2010). As in many other countries of the world, Sri Lanka started a sea cucumber seed production programme. Under this program, which began in last 2011, sandfish (Holothuria scabra) was successfully bred by scientists of the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA), which is the resear...

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Resource Survey , Sea cucumber
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Resources Survey
environmental resources, protection and conservation. Examples: environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape
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Ajith Kumara, P.A.D. (2014). Recent training workshop on artificial breeding and larval rearing of Holothuria scabra in Sri Lanka, SPC Beche-de-mer Informat...

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