Golden Jubilee National Seminar on Diversification of Aquaculture Through Locally Available Fish Species survival percentages were 84.6 and 75.0 respectively. The ultimate survival percentage of spawn after sequential rearing in PNT, NT and RT was about 61% at final stages of fingerlings. MANAGEMENT NORMS FOR ENHANCING LARVAL SURVIVALITY OF MAGUR, CLARIAS BATRACHUS (LINNAEUS) B.K. Mahapatra*, Parimal Sardar and Subhendu Datta Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Deemed University (ICAR), Kolkata Centre, Sector-V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata — 700 091. bkmahapatra2007@yahoo.co.in The Clarias batrachus (Linn.) is an air-breathing indigenous catfish popularly known as magur in India commands a good market value. In mass scale seed production under captive condition there is a huge mortality in larval rearing phase might be due to lack of standardized rearing environment, appropriate feeds and feeding techniques, maintaining optimum water quality parameters, disease management, prevention of cannibalism. Thus the comprehensive study of breeding and larval rearing of C. batrachus has been done. In the present communication, the successful findmg has been highlighted which will pave the way for mass scale seed production of magur under captive condition. Brooders should be healthy and within the age group of at least 1+ year, weighing 150 g and above for good quantity healthy eggs. Castration to fertilization should be completed within 2 minutes for enhancing the fertilization percentage above 90%. Fertilized eggs should hatch under flow through system ensuring surface and bottom drainage. During incubation, number of eggs should be restricted 500 nos per liter which may be reduced to 100 numbers per liter for hatchling. Bore well water with less iron is ideal for hatching and larval survival. The optimum pH and water temperature for successful hatching was found to be between 7-8 and 27-31°C respectively. Number of spawn and fry should be maintained 50 and 10 per liter of water respectively. In advanced fry stage number can be further thinning to 5 per liter. Besides continuous exchange, the bottom water has to be additionally drained out. Bottom moping and cleaning of dirt is very essential. These should be done to maintain optimum water quality which otherwise accumulates ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide due decomposition of unfertilized eggs, dead eggs, eggs shell, uneaten feed and Organized by CIFE, Kolkata Centre on 27-28 August, 2010 37