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Studies on the fishery of the penaeid prawn Metapenaeus affinis (Milne Edwards) Along the Mangalore coast

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Title Studies on the fishery of the penaeid prawn
Metapenaeus affinis (Milne Edwards)
Along the Mangalore coast
 
Creator Ramamurthy, S
Kurup, N S
 
Subject Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description Tbe fishery anl certain features of the population structures of M. affiMs
caught by the trawlers fran 1962 through 1971 are reported. The fishery was
chiefly i^odal and was dominated by large size groups early in the season and
smaller size groups later. The maximum number of broods entering the fishery was
observed to be four. Age and growth studies indicated that tbe males attain a
length of about 95, 140 and 160 mm and females, lOO, 143 and 170 mm at the
end of one, two and three years, respectively. The miniminn size at first maturity
for males was found tp be 116 mm. The average annual instantaneous fishing
mwtality was found to be 3.76 for males and 2.50 for females between one and
two year olds.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1975
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1113/1/Article_22.pdf
Ramamurthy, S and Kurup, N S (1975) Studies on the fishery of the penaeid prawn Metapenaeus affinis (Milne Edwards) Along the Mangalore coast. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 22 (1&2). pp. 243-254.