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Mudbanks of Kerala-Karnataka; Need for integrated study

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Title Mudbanks of Kerala-Karnataka; Need for integrated study
 
Creator Silas, E G
 
Subject Marine Environment
 
Description We have documented reports of the
mudbanks along the south-west coast
between Mangalore and Quilon for well over
three hundred years. However, sequential
record of their occurrence in time and space is
wanting. This phenomenon in Kerala, typi
cally as occurs south of Alleppey (^Fig. 1), is
known as Chakara. or Santhakara ("quiet
shores"). During the last two decades the
presence or absence of the Chakara pheno
menon has attracted considerable attention of
the fisheries sector, resulting in a number of
useful studies on mudbanks covering specific
aspects. Yet we are far from having precise
answers to the problem of the mode of its
origin, establishment, stability and dissip
ation, except propounding some hypotheses
and suggestions based on physico-chemical
and biological data.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1984
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/761/1/Bull31-2.pdf
Silas, E G (1984) Mudbanks of Kerala-Karnataka; Need for integrated study. CMFRI Bulletin, 31. pp. 2-7.