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Ribbonfishes

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Title Ribbonfishes
 
Creator Nair, P N Radhakrishnan
Prakasan, D
 
Subject Pelagic Fisheries
 
Description The ribbonfishes, also known as hair-tail or cutlass, form a major and abundant
fishery resource among the marine pelagic finfishes of the Indian seas. They belong to
the family Trichiuridae and are characterised by elongate, compressed and ribbon-like
body; prominent canine-like teeth; lack of caudal fin and the silvery colouration. They
are essentially marine, but occur in the estuaries too. They have a distribution in the
Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions and in India they are distributed all along the coast
with abundance in the northwest and central east coasts. In India, three decades ago,
they were low priced fishes and hence were preferred by the poor. Large fishes were
consumed fresh and transported even to the interior markets, but the smaller ones, in
excess of the local requirements, were usually sun-dried on the beach. Later the
marketing scenario of ribbonfishes underwent a drastic change when it gained a position
in the export market. Currently large quantities of ribbonfishes are exported in the
frozen form to China, Japan and other southeast Asian countries. During the year 1999-
2000 (April-March), frozen ribbonfishes contributed up to 18% to the total marine
products export of India and among the exported frozen finfish products its share was
48%. In the subsequent year (2000-01) its contribution almost doubled forming 30%
and 63% respectively.
 
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/21/1/new_arti10.pdf
Nair, P N Radhakrishnan and Prakasan, D (2003) Ribbonfishes. In: Status of Exploited Marine Fishery Resources of India. CMFRI, Cochin, pp. 76-87. ISBN 81-901219-3-6