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Availability of grey mullet spawners in Adyar estuary and Kovalam backwater around Madras, India

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Title Availability of grey mullet spawners in Adyar estuary and Kovalam backwater around Madras, India
 
Creator Mohanraj, G
Nammalwar, P
Kandasamy, S
Sekar, A C
 
Subject Fisheries Survey
 
Description A survey of the grey mullet spawnen in Adyar Estuary and Kovalam Backwater around
Madras was conducted for 2 years from July 1985 to June 1987. Availability of spawners of
different species of grey mullet Mugil cephalus, Liza macrolepis, L. parsia and L. tade in the areas
surveyed was assessed. It is evident from the data that the spawners of M. cephalus are abundant
from October to January. The peak availability of spawners of L. macrokpis is from January to
July. In the case of L. parsia the spawners are available from December to March and June to
August whereas, L. tade spawners occur from November to January.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 1994
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/737/1/M%2CN%2CK%2CS__167-180.pdf
Mohanraj, G and Nammalwar, P and Kandasamy, S and Sekar, A C (1994) Availability of grey mullet spawners in Adyar estuary and Kovalam backwater around Madras, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 36 (2). pp. 167-180.