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Indian Oil sardine

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/604/
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Title Indian Oil sardine
 
Creator Antony Raja, B T
 
Subject Oil sardine
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Description In the group-wise composition of the world marine fish production,
Clupeoids occupy an unassailable position at the top and India is no exception.
This group which contributes on an average about 32% to the annual marine
fish production is mainly represented by the sardines of which the Indian oil-sardine,
Sardinella longiceps, subscribes to the best part of it. The importance of this
fish in the socio-economic life of the fishing community of the Malabar coast is very
aptly expressed as Kudumbam pularthi (= provider for the family). The oil-sardine
fishery during 1950-1968 period has contributed annually on an average to the extent
of 18% to total marine fish landings in India. It is, however, subjected to such wild
fluctuations that it has been found to vary between 1% and 33%. It is this undependable
and unpredictable nature of the fishery that first drew the concern of Day (1865) and it
was left to Hornell (1910b) to emphasise the need for a scientific study which led to
the pioneer research report by him and Nayudu (1924). Except for the studies of
Devanesan (1943), no important work appeared till almost the beginning of fifties.
After the establishment of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Station in 1947,
greater attention on various biological aspects was given resulting in the contributions
of Nair (1949 et seq.), Chidambaram (1950) and Nair & Chidambaram (1951). The
synopsis of information on the biology and fishery presented by Nair (1960) to the
‘World Scientific Meeting on the Biology of Sardines and Related Species’ under the
as spices of FAO provided a clear account of the progress made till then. The
rapid strides made subsequent to this can be easily evaluated when the
history of research contributions of the last 5 decades beginning from the studies of
Hornell and Nayudu (loc. cit.) relating chiefly and directly on the oil-sardine of Indian
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1969
 
Type Monograph
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/604/1/Bulletin_16.pdf
Antony Raja, B T (1969) Indian Oil sardine. Technical Report. CMFRI, Kochi.