Heavy rain, flooding hit fish farming around Kochi
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The fishes escaped as water ranges rose above the bunds that had been constructed to stop water intrusion from exterior.
Scores of fish farmers around Kochi, utilizing each cages and open ponds, have sustained substantial losses within the floods triggered by heavy rains this week ensuing from cyclone Tauktae.
While a few of the shrimp farmers close to Kochi concern the potential outbreak of a viral illness, aquaculturists in areas like Kumbalanghi, Chellanam and border areas of Ezhupunna have seen heavy flooding, which has rendered a lot of the coastal paddy fields unsuitable for fish and shrimp farming within the coming season. Several farmers have misplaced cages, which had been both washed ashore within the floods or had been severely broken.
A.R. Joseph, a fish farmer in Kumbalangi mentioned that he misplaced substantial numbers of pearl spots (karimeen), cat fish, tilapia and milkfish within the rains that flooded the fish pond, measuring around 4.5 acres within the village surrounded by backwaters. The fishes escaped as water ranges rose above the bunds that had been constructed to stop water intrusion from exterior, he mentioned.
Mr. Joseph mentioned that he had launched the aquaculture enterprise concentrating on the December pageant season, when demand for varieties like pearl spots go up. Pearl spots are in nice demand all year long with fish weighing over 250 grams apiece fetching around Rs. 500 a kg. He mentioned that there have been around 25,000 fingerlings within the pond from the place a big quantity had escaped within the rains.
V.P. Anthony in Chellanam mentioned that about 150 acres of fish farming space within the coastal village has been rendered unsuitable for additional fish tradition operations after sea water incursion throughout the heavy rains and winds, which triggered excessive waves. He mentioned that in his expertise, the 2021 flooding was just like the December 1965 floods that had resulted in inundation of a lot of houses and paddy fields in Chellanam.
Augustine Kurisingal, one other farmer in Paruthithode in Chellanam too has misplaced substantial fish farming space to the flooding from the ocean. The aqua farmers in these areas develop shrimp, pearl spots, gray mullet, tilapia, purple snapper in addition to milk fish and catfish.
Losses have been sustained by farmers like Keeth Anthony Vachakkal and Celestine Kattuparambil, who run a 12-acre farm in Kallancherry in Kumbalangi panchayat. Fish within the pond had been washed away over the safety bunds throughout the heavy rains and floods.
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