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The perch-fishery by special traps in the area around Mandapam in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay

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Title The perch-fishery by special traps in the
area around Mandapam in the Gulf
of Mannar and Palk Bay
 
Creator Prabhu, M S
 
Subject Perch fishes
 
Description One of the indigenous methods of fishing prevalent in the Gulf of Mannar
and Palk Bay is by the employment of traps, known locally by the name
' Koodu'. These traps are primarily intended for catching percoid fishes
which abound in localities with hard bottorn formed of rocks and corals
characteristic of the inshore waters of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay.
As these areas are shallow, with rocks and corals scattered about, neither
shore seines nor gill nets could be operated successfully in most of them,
which probably explains the development of perch trapping in this part of
the country as an organised fishery. A detailed investigation of the method
of fishing and the fishes caught therefrom was undertaken with a view to
determining the composition of the catches, the factors affecting the yield
per trap and the total yield, the diff"erences in yield from Gulf of Mannar
and Palk Bay, the sexual maturity, relative weight and food of various species
of fishes caught in these traps.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1954
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1606/1/Article_07.pdf
Prabhu, M S (1954) The perch-fishery by special traps in the area around Mandapam in the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 1 (1&2). pp. 94-129.