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| Field | Value |
| Title | A new one boat mid water trawl for Indian waters |
| Names |
Mhalathkar, H.N.
Ramarao, S.V.S. Mathai, P.G. |
| Date Issued | 1975 (iso8601) |
| Abstract | Eventhough the rich and variegated pelagic fishery recources of our West-coast is well known much has to be done for a judicial and systematic exploitation on a commercial scale . To fill up this lacuna the present paper describes in detail a new design of 10 .5 m . four-equal panel mid-water trawl, its rigging and operation from a medium size vessel . Comprehensive comparative efficiency studies of this gear with a 10 .5m. unequal panel mid-water trawl established the superiority of the new gear . From the results based on the mouth opening, resistance and the catch it is opined that this new gear can not only be used on a commercial scale in harvesting the seasonal pelagic fishery, but also as a secondary supporting gear in shrimp fishery in places like Veraval, where there is a commercially exploitable yield of quality fishes like hilsa, pomfret, seer etc ., without much modification from conventional stern trawlers . |
| Genre | Article |
| Topic | Mid-water |
| Identifier | Fishery Technology 1975:12(1),37-44 |