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Indian Oil Sardine

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Title Indian Oil Sardine
 
Creator Pillai, N G K
Ganga, U
Jayaprakash, A A
 
Subject Pelagic Fisheries
 
Description The Indian oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps (Fig. 1) is a very important pelagic
fish species which contributes to about 15% of the total marine fish production in
India. Local names of oil sardine are, Mathi, Nalla mathi, Nei chala (Malayalam);
Bhutai (Kannada); Tarli (Marathi and Hindi); Nonalai, Peichalai (Tamil); Noona-
Kavallu (Telugu); Nna Kavala, Disco kabala (Oriya). Besides being a favoured,
nutritionally rich and affordable table fish occurring abundantly almost throughout
the year, it also serves as a source for valuable by-products like sardine oil used in
several industries and fish-meal for cattle and poultry feed production. Its fishery is
characterised by remarkably wide fluctuations on a seasonal, annual and decadal
scale. The successful years of oil sardine fishery bring as much prosperity to the
fishing community as its failure
a major economic setback.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Mohan Joseph, M
Jayaprakash, A A
 
Date 2003
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15/1/new_arti2.pdf
Pillai, N G K and Ganga, U and Jayaprakash, A A (2003) Indian Oil Sardine. In: Status of Exploited Marine Fishery Resources of India. CMFRI, Cochin, pp. 18-24. ISBN 81-901219-3-6