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The Indian Mackerel

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Title The Indian Mackerel
 
Creator Yohannan, T M
Sivadas, M
 
Subject Pelagic Fisheries
 
Description The Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta is one of the most important pelagic
fish resources of India in the context of national food security. The vernacular name of
the species is Bangada in Gujarati, Banguda in Kannada, Ayila in Malayalam, Kumla
in Tamil and Kanagurta and Kangadathalu in Telugu. Its fishery is second in importance
to that of oil sardine in the multispecies marine fishery of India exploiting hundreds of
species commercially. The resource contributed on an average 8.6 % to the total marine
fish production in the country during 1985-2000. During the last decade (1990-99) the
average annual catch of this species amounted to 0.19 million tonnes. Though distributed
all along the Indian coast, the resource supports a fishery of high magnitude along the
west coast where it contributed 10.2 % of the total marine fish catch
during 1985-2000 whereas the
contribution from the east
coast was only 4.9%. Being a
planktivore, the fish enjoys a very
important status in the marine food
chain playing a major role in
converting the abundant primary
and secondary production in the
coastal waters and form effective
links to higher carnivores that
support major fisheries in the
ecosystem.
 
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/19/1/new_arti8.pdf
Yohannan, T M and Sivadas, M (2003) The Indian Mackerel. In: Status of Exploited Marine Fishery Resources of India. CMFRI, Cochin, pp. 60-65. ISBN 81-901219-3-6