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Title	Food & Feeding Habits of the Chinese Pomfret, Pampus chinensis (Euphrasen) from the Orissa Coast

Creator	Pati, S

Description	227-230 Copepods formed the main item in the diet of Pampus chinensis, a carnivore, followed by smaller jellyfishes and decapods. Amphipods, crustacean larvae, polychaete larvae, cuttle fish, chaetognaths, fish scales, fish eggs and larvae occurred in minor quantities in the stomach of the fish. Ostracods, cladocerans, marine insects and molluscan larvae were occasional in the diet. The semidigested food was highly macerated and pulpy, resembling shredded jelly fishes. The fish had preference for copepods and the intensity of feeding was observed to be high during the southwest monsoon months. In contrast with other stromateid fishes, the Chinese pomfret did not change its larval habitat and remained a surface feeder throughout life. This behaviour accounted for its effective fishing with drift gillnets and poor representation in the bottom trawls.

Date	2016-12-27T04:51:37Z 2016-12-27T04:51:37Z 1980-09

Type	Article

Identifier	0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print) http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/39226

Language	en_US

Rights	CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India

Publisher	NISCAIR-CSIR, India

Source	IJMS Vol.09(3) [September 1980]

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