Pueruli and post‐pueruli, early juveniles and sub‐adults of the spiny lobster, Panulirus homarus and juveniles of P. ornatus were grown in different floating sea cages along the southeast coast of India from May 2003 to May 2007. The first type of cage had a galvanised iron pipe frame (2.0 m × 2.0 m × 1.2 m) with steel woven mesh and four inner detachable compartments (0.75 m × 0.75 m × 1.10 m). Fibre‐reinforced plastic was us...

Analysis of variation of rainfall in space, time and amounts, and its attendant effect on the ecosystem is vital in arid and semi‐arid environments where the resource is scare, highly variable and unpredictable. In this study, we analyse the characteristics of rainfall in the Sultanate of Oman using data recorded between 1977 and 2003. The data is divided into six geomorphic compartments to represent the various topographic re...

The scyllarinid lobster, Petrarctus rugosus was reared to the postlarval nisto in 51 days at 24.9–26.5°C between November 2003 and April 2004 in Chennai, India. The lobster had eight phyllosomal instars. The eighth instars died while moulting to nisto. Instar VI was attained in 34 days with an average intermoult period of 5.4 days, whereas the last two moults took 17 days to complete. The captive breeders mated and bred severa...