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Sciaenids

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Title Sciaenids
 
Creator Mohanraj, G
Batcha, Hameed
Gomathy, S
 
Subject Demersal Fisheries
 
Description Sciaenids, commonly called croakers, grunters and jewfishes are small to
moderately sized fishes inhabiting muddy bottom in coastal waters. Two larger
species of sciaenids Otolithoides biauritus and Protonibea diacanthus, popularly
called Koth and Ghol in Marathi, and Goyani and Ghol in Gujarathi, form substantial
component of the sciaenid fishery in the northwest region. Other smaller sciaenids
are known as Dhoma in Gujarati and Marathi; Dhodi in Kannada; Kora in Malayalm;
Kathalai in Tamil; Gorasa in Telugu; Gullura in Oriya and Bhola in Bengali.
Sciaenids sustain one of the major demersal marine fisheries of India and contributed
to 6.5% (1,71,687 t) of the total marine fish production during 2000.
 
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/31/1/17.pdf
Mohanraj, G and Batcha, Hameed and Gomathy, S (2003) Sciaenids. In: Status of Exploited Marine Fishery Resources of India. CMFRI, Cochin, pp. 133-140. ISBN 81-901219-3-6