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Unusual heavy landings of flying gurnards at Munambam Fishing Harbour

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Title Unusual heavy landings of flying gurnards at Munambam Fishing Harbour
 
Creator Roul, Subal Kumar
Retheesh, T B
Gireesh, R
Prakasan, D
Abdussamad, E M
 
Subject Fish landing
Flying fishes
Fish and Fisheries
 
Description Flying gurnards belongs to the familyDactylopteridae, distributed in tropical Indo-Pacificand Atlantic oceans. From the 7 speciesrepresenting two genera, Dactylopterus andDactyloptena only four species such asDactyloptena gilberti, D. macracantha,D. orientalis and D. peterseni are found in thewestern Indian Ocean. These are small to moderatesized marine bottom dwelling fish and mostlycaught by bottom trawls as by-catch in the nearshore waters and not having much commercialvalue.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11423/1/MFIS-10.pdf
Roul, Subal Kumar and Retheesh, T B and Gireesh, R and Prakasan, D and Abdussamad, E M (2016) Unusual heavy landings of flying gurnards at Munambam Fishing Harbour. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (228). pp. 21-22. ISSN 0254-380 X