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A brief observation on the juvenile prawn fishery of Killai backwaters in the Cauvery delta

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Title A brief observation on the juvenile prawn fishery of
Killai backwaters in the Cauvery delta
 
Creator Thangaraj Subramanian, V
 
Subject Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description The stake-net fishery has revealed that the juvenile prawns enter the backwaters
in two annual waves, in July September and December-January, coinciding
with moderate inflow of freshwater. P. indicus (44.4%), M. monoceros
(33.7%) and M. dobsoni (15.9%) were the dominant components of the fishery.
Their modal lengths were respectively 55-110 mm, 50-95 man and 35-65 mm,
and the estimated monthly growth-rates for females while in the backwaters were
19.9 mm and 17.9 mm, 12.6 and for males 9.7 mm and 10.5 and 9.3 mm.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/365/1/Article_07.pdf
Thangaraj Subramanian, V (1987) A brief observation on the juvenile prawn fishery of Killai backwaters in the Cauvery delta. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 34 (4). pp. 399-405.