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Report of Potato grouper and Cloudy grouper in fishery landings at Mumbai

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Title Report of Potato grouper and Cloudy grouper in fishery landings at Mumbai
 
Creator Albert Idu, K A
Akhilesh, K V
Singh, V V
 
Subject Fish landing
Groupers
 
Description Grouper fishery of Maharashtra is dominated by
Epinephelus diacanthus with occasional landing of
E. bleekeri, E. malabaricus, E.coioides, E.
areolatus, E. polylepis, E. morrhua, E. latifasciatus,
E. epistictus, E. radiatus and Cephalopholis
sonnerati. During the routine fishery survey at
Sassoon Dock on 9th October 2016 a single specimen
of Potato grouper Epinephelus tukula measuring 35
cm TL (1.7 kg) was observed in the landings of a
trawler operated at a depth of 40 off Ratnagiri.
Reports of E. tukula is rare from Indian coast and
other reports are from Lakshadweep, Vizhinjam
(Kerala), Grand Island (Goa), Muttom, Enayam
(Tamil Nadu) coasts (Sluka and Lazarus, 2010 Marine
Biodiversity Records 3:1-3). Potato grouper, is a
widely distributed Indo-Pacific species, but sparsely
known in their distribution range from Red Sea to
Kenya and Australia. The name refers to the potatoshaped
dark blotches on the body.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2017
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/12310/1/MFIS-231_12.pdf
Albert Idu, K A and Akhilesh, K V and Singh, V V (2017) Report of Potato grouper and Cloudy grouper in fishery landings at Mumbai. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (231). pp. 25-26. ISSN 0254-380 X