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Perches

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Title Perches
 
Creator Mathew, Grace
 
Subject Freshwater Fisheries
 
Description Perches are generally large sized Perciform fishes belonging to the families
Serranidae, Lutjanidae and Lethrinidae; commonly called rock cods, snappers
and pigface breams respectively. Perches occur all along the Indian coast. Most of
the species belonging to this group inhabit the rocky grounds and the coral reef
areas, while a few prefer the seagrass beds and muddy and sandy bottoms. They are
particularly abundant in the rocky and coral grounds off Kerala, off Tamil Nadu,
Gulf of Mannar, Gulf of Kutch, off Paradeep and in the Andaman Seas. These
larger perches constitute roughly 2% of the total marine fish production in the country,
with an average annual landing of 28,800 t during 1990-2000 period. As per the
estimates by the Government of India, the potential of all perches within the 50m-
depth zone is about 1,14,000 t and that beyond 50m is 1,25,000t. Most of the
fishing grounds being not amenable to trawling operations, the major perches are
exploited mainly by other gears like hooks and lines, traps and the drift net.
 
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/27/1/13.pdf
Mathew, Grace (2003) Perches. In: Status of Exploited Marine Fishery Resources of India. CMFRI, Cochin, pp. 102-109. ISBN 81-901219-3-6