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Hooks and line fishery for 'Kalava' at Cochin

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Title Hooks and line fishery for 'Kalava' at Cochin
 
Creator Mathew, Grace
Venugopal, K M
 
Subject Marine Fishing
Groupers
Marine Fisheries
Demersal Fisheries
 
Description The present paper deals with the hooks and line fishery mainly for Kalava, from the comparatively
deeper areas of 75 to 125 m depth on the outer continental shelf off Ponnani, Cochin and Alleppey where
the substratum is of hard rock with rocky outcrops; which is the habitat for rock cods and other perches.
The hooks and line fishery for Kalava starts from late November or early December and extends to the
end of March, when the sea is fairly calm and the waters dear. This fishery made its appearance at Codiin
in the early eighties i.e. in 1982 when the catch was only 49 tonnes and the effort 157 unit operations which
made a tremendous increase to a total catch of 827.8 tonnes in the year 1987 with an effort of 2,656 fishing
trips. Perches or the Kalava formed 80.8% of the total hooks and line fish catch, the rest being formed
by elasmobranchs, tuna, Coryphaem, seer fish etc.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1990
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/302/1/Article_12.pdf
Mathew, Grace and Venugopal, K M (1990) Hooks and line fishery for 'Kalava' at Cochin. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 37 (4). pp. 347-355.