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Title Lobster resources and culture potential
 
Creator Shanmugam, S
Kathirvel, M
 
Subject Lobsters
 
Description In India, the average annual lobster landings during
1975-1981 were 1,6201 forming 0.8 % in the total crusta
cean landings. The average foreign exchange earned
by exporting the frozen lobster tails (av. 584 t) during
that period is Rs. 54 million. The major species
contributing to the exploited fishery are the shallow
water spiny lobsters PanuUfus homarus (Linnaeus),
P. polyphagus (Herbst) and P. ofnatus (Fabricius).
Prasad and Tampi (1968) reported 18 palinurid and 20
scyllarid lobsters in the Indian Ocean, out of which
8 species of palinurids Panulirus homarus, P. ornatuS, P-
polyphagus, P. versicolor, P. penicillatus, P. longipes,
Puerulus sewelli and Palinustus mossambicus and 5 species
of scyllarids Thenus ofientalis, Scyllafus batei, S. rugosus,
S. fubens and S. sordidus are known to occur along the
Indian coast. The lobsters reported from the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands include 3 species belonging to the
family Nephropsidae and 7 species of Eryonidae (Alcock,
1901) and 2 species of Palinuridae (Balss, 1925 ; Cheku-
nova, 1971). During the present survey conducted in
January-April 1978, data were collected on the occur
rence and exploitation ol lobsters which are presented
here. Th? potential for lobster culture is indicated.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1983
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/67/1/Bulletin_No_34-11.pdf
Shanmugam, S and Kathirvel, M (1983) Lobster resources and culture potential. CMFRI Bulletin, 34. pp. 61-65.