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A century of molluscan fisheries research in India

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Title A century of molluscan fisheries
research in India
 
Creator Mohamed, K S
Rao, G Syda
Velayudhan, T S
 
Subject Molluscan Fisheries
 
Description 7
A century of molluscan fisheries
research in India
K.S. Mohamed, G.S. Rao and T.S. Velayudhan
7.1 Historical
India has extensive molluscan resources along her coasts. In the numerous
bays, brackish waters and estuaries and in the seas around the subcontinent;
molluscs belonging to different taxonomic groups, such as, mussels, oysters,
clams, pearl-oysters, window-pane oysters, ark-shells, whelks, chanks, cowries,
squids and cuttlefish have been exploited since time immemorial for food, pearls
and shells. Systematic and organized studies on molluscs of India have been
initiated by the British more than 100 years ago in the late 19th century. One of
the earliest (in 1893) recorded studies has been that of Melville and Abercrombie
on the littoral marine molluscs of Bombay. This was followed by a number of
systematic works on cephalopods by Europeans such as, Goodrich, Preston,
Massy and much later by Adam. In 1916, Annandale and Kemp identified a
number of commercially important molluscan fauna off the coast of Orissa and
West Bengal. Herdman’s reports to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl
Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Mannar (1903-1906) dealing with different
aspects of pearl oysters and pearl oyster fisheries like systematics, morphology
and life-history of pearl oysters, parasites, pests and predators of pearl oysters,
pearl formation, location of pearl banks, their ecology and flora and fauna are
most outstanding and valuable reference works on the subject. Undoubtedly,
the most seminal work on bivalves in the early 20th century was that of Hornell,
who studied the molluscan resources of Indian coasts carefully, especially those
of the composite Madras State, and published a number of detailed accounts
dealing with the habits, habitat, distribution, fisheries and utilization of several
commercial molluscs.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Mohan Joseph, M
Pillai, N G K
 
Date 2007
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/60/1/7._Mew_Mohamed_KS.pdf
Mohamed, K S and Rao, G Syda and Velayudhan, T S (2007) A century of molluscan fisheries research in India. In: Status and Perspectives in Marine Fisheries Research in India. CMFRI, Cochin, pp. 173-196. ISBN 81-901219 6-0