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The resources of hilsa shad, Hilsa ilisha (Hamilton), along the northeast coast of India

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Title The resources of hilsa shad, Hilsa ilisha (Hamilton), along the
northeast coast of India
 
Creator Reuben, S
Dan, S S
Somaraju, M V
Philipose, Varughese
Sathianandan, T V
 
Subject Stock Assessment
Pelagic Fishes
 
Description The results of 4study on the fishery, biology, exploitation and mortality of hilsa shad (Hi1.w ilishu) are
presented. The average annual landing of Hilsa ilisha for 1979 -88 was 57 10 tomes forming 0.4% of the total
landings. The major craft and gears and [he contributions of different states arepresented. Age at first maturity
was estimated as 1.98 yem. The details of spawning migrations, maturity stages and fecundity mdiscussed.
Thetotal mortality, natural mortality and fishingmortality coefficients wereob,tainedas 1.71,0.704 and 0.9444
respectively. The present yield of4 168tonnes wasthe sameas theestimated MSY indicating theoptimum level
of exploitation.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1992
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/519/1/Vol_39_No_3%264%3B169-181.pdf
Reuben, S and Dan, S S and Somaraju, M V and Philipose, Varughese and Sathianandan, T V (1992) The resources of hilsa shad, Hilsa ilisha (Hamilton), along the northeast coast of India. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 39 (3&4). pp. 169-181.