Abstract:
Although there are a number of fisheries and aquaculture development programmes, the country has not yet reached
the level of per capita fish consumption level of about 21 kg. To overcome this problem, Sri Lankan government has
been given priority to produce fish seed as the main aquaculture development strategy. But all those seed stocking
programe have not reached their expectation. This research is aimed to study how far the stocking programme effect
production. Stocked amount of seed was considered as independent variable and recorded production just after
stocking year was considered as dependable variable. The regression analysis was applied for the data of shrimp and
fresh water fish for the duration of 2006 to 2012. The result revealed that fish seed stocking density was statistically
significant on fish production variation but shrimp seed stocking did not show statistically significant impact on the
shrimp production variation. The inland and aquaculture yield in metric tons (Y) was related to stocking fish seed
million (S) found thatY =(- 9447.93) + 19795.41 logS. It is concluded that present shrimp seed stocking programme is
ineffective. Therefore, it is recommended to re adjust the shrimp seed stocking strategy to gain more shrimp
production.
