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Mangroves - Nursery for fishes

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Title Mangroves - Nursery for fishes
 
Creator Jagtap, T.G.
Singh, C.
 
Subject Species diversity
Flora
Resource conservation
Resource management
 
Description Mangrove habitats are of a great ecological and socio-economic significance. Goa exhibits fringing mangroves comprising of 15 species. Shizophora mucronata, Avicennia officinalis, Sonneretia alba, S. caseolaris, Exoecaria agallocha and Acanthus ilicifolius are dominant flora. Dense thickets and maximum number of species are confined to polyhaline (18-30 ppt) and mesohaline (5-18 ppt) zones of estuaries. Oligohaline regions are dominated by S. caseolaris and Kandelia candal. Total cover in the state has been estimated to be approx. 20 km sup(2) of which greater than 75% occurs in the regions influenced by Mandovi-Zuari-Cumbarjua estuarine complex. These habitats are traditionally utilized for capture and captive fisheries, and reclaimed mainly for agriculture and urbanization. Lately, these ecologically sensitive habitats are included under CRZ-I category of Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Act of the country. Mangrove in the state, being limited, need stringent and effective management regulations.
 
Date 2008-07-02T04:51:46Z
2008-07-02T04:51:46Z
2004
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Know our shore: Goa, ed. by: Untawale, A.G. 47-56p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1111
 
Language en
 
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Publisher WWF for Nature-India