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Purse-seine and boat-seine (Thangu vala) fishery for The oil sardine off cochin-1968-1971

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Title Purse-seine and boat-seine (Thangu vala) fishery for
The oil sardine off cochin-1968-1971
 
Creator Balan, V
 
Subject Marine Fishing
Oil sardine
 
Description The data on the catches, fishing eflFort, length and sex composition relating to the
purse seine fishery for the oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps V^l. off Cochin, during the
three seasons from 1968-69 to 1970-71 are presented. A comparison of catch rates of
the sardine landed by this gear with those of the boat seine thmgu vala during the same
period has been made. A comparative study of the length range, the modal and
the mean length distributions of the oil sardine catches obtained in the two gear revealed
a fairly good similarity. Application of Chi-square test on the sex composition data of
the sardine shoals fished by purse seine during 1969-71 indicated that there was no significant
dominance of either sex-
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1973
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1226/1/Article_07.pdf
Balan, V (1973) Purse-seine and boat-seine (Thangu vala) fishery for The oil sardine off cochin-1968-1971. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 20 (1). pp. 70-77.