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A preliminary assessment on the mass mortality of fish at Rameswaram

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Title A preliminary assessment on the mass mortality of fish at Rameswaram
 
Creator Anikuttan, K K
Surya, S
Nazar, A K A
Avadhanula, Ravi K
Nazeera Begum, M
 
Subject Fish Mortality
 
Description A massive fish kill was reported at Agnitheertham
that covers an area of around 200 metre long
shoreline, near Rameswaram temple on 09.11.2015.
Juveniles of fishes, crabs and shrimps were seen on
the sand and in between the rocky crevices. Large
shoals of juveniles of many fish species were
swimming in a passive manner. The dead fish
assemblage at the site included finfishes like Gerres
abbreviatus, Siganus javus, Terapon jarbua,
Plicofolis tenuispinis, Sardinella albella, Sardinella
gibbosa, Selaroides leptolepis, Platycephalus
indicus, Scatophagus argus and crustaceans like
Portunus pelagicus (crab) and Penaeus latisulcatus
(shrimp).
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11625/1/MFIS%20229-9.pdf
Anikuttan, K K and Surya, S and Nazar, A K A and Avadhanula, Ravi K and Nazeera Begum, M (2016) A preliminary assessment on the mass mortality of fish at Rameswaram. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (229). p. 21. ISSN 0254-380 X