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Title On the comparative catch effeciency of hand-operated and winch-operated trawls
 
Names Deshpande, S.D.
Date Issued 1960 (iso8601)
Abstract That the motorization of the i ndigenous fishi ng crafts and the in troduct ion of modern designs of mechan ized fishi ng boats pro\•idc.: t h.:: background impetus for a n i w.provemcnt of the exist i ng fishing gear and met hods is too well know n. Some of t he mari t ime States in I ndia have com pleted the first phase of the general • mecha niza t ion • programme. namely-t he instal­ lation of engi nes for propulsion in the existing fishing boats (Sct na, 1955; Deshpandc. 1958; Gurtner, 1958; K uri ya n a nd Balasubra manya n, 1 959). The next step ob'iouvly is the introduction of modern fishing gar to increaset he catch-per-un i t effort and thereby to be in commensu rate with ti-e extra
capital out hy. Chidambaram (1 952) and Joh11 eta/. (1959) review the attempts rn(l.dc ea rlier for the i nt rod uction of new gear i n Indian waters.
Genre Article
Topic Vessels
Identifier Indian Journal of Fisheries 1960: 7(2), 458- 470