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Recent trends in the mobulid fishery in Indian waters

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Title Recent trends in the mobulid fishery in Indian waters
 
Creator Nair, Rekha J.
Zacharia, P.U.
Kumar, S. Dinesh
GKishor, T.
Divya, N. D.
Seetha, P.K
Sobhana, K.S.
 
Subject Mobulids
Fishery
Gill rakers
Exploited
Indian waters
 
Description 1265-1274
Mobulidae are zooplanktivorous elasmobranchs, found circumglobally in tropical, subtropical and temperate coastal waters. It comprises of two recognized species of manta rays (Manta spp.) and nine recognized species of devil rays (Mobulaspp.). Although the reports of mobulid fisheryin India were only from 1960s, however it was commercially exploited only after 2007 for their valuable gillrakers. Mobuladiabolus, M. tarpacana, M. japonica, M. kuhlii, M. thurstoni, Manta birostris and M. alfredi are the seven species which contributes tomobulid fishery. White gilled Mobulatarpacana is highly targeted for its high priced gill raker which fetches uptoRs. 8,000 kg-1 in dry weight.Few mobulid species has already reached the IUCN Red list status. Thorough monitoring of mobulid fish exploitation level is essential in India. It is necessary to ensure standardized sampling and modelling methodologies to estimate the stock position of these fishes from Indian waters.
 
Date 2016-07-21T07:08:55Z
2016-07-21T07:08:55Z
2015-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/jspui/handle/123456789/34904
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.44(09) [September 2015]