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Fish and fisheries of the Chilka Lake with statistics of fish catches for the years 1948-1950

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Title Fish and fisheries of the Chilka Lake
with statistics of fish catches
for the years 1948-1950
 
Creator Jones, S
Sujansingani, K H
 
Subject Fish and Fisheries
 
Description The faunistic investigations of the Chilka Lake conducted during 1914-15
by the Zoological Survey of India under the direction of late Dr. Nelson
Annandale brought out the richness and variety of the fauna and the very
remarkable ecological features associated with it. An exhaustive collection
of fishes made during the survey was described by Chaudhury (1916 a,
1916 6; 1917 and 1923) and Hora (1923) and of the prawns and crabs by
Kemp (1915). Being an essentially faunistic survey little work was done
from the point of view of fisheries, which were then of local importance
only, as all the surplus catches of fish were converted into cured or dried fish
and sent to districts in the interior, mainly the former " Native States " of
the Orissa State. The growing demand for fresh fish from Calcutta market
since World War I, however, has made the Chilka Lake a very important
fishing centre, and with the use of ice as a preservative, curing and drying
declined considerably, the greater part of the catches being exported in fresh
condition. The growth of the fish trade since the pre-war days and the
various factors influencing it have been described by Mitra (1946) in his
scheme for the development of the Chilka Lake, but our knowledge of the
biology of the fish and the fisheries of the Lake has remained very meagre.
The Chilka Lake was chosen as one of the centres of estuarine fishery
observations, because of the existence of certain favourable conditions, viz.,
the compactness of the area, the very low local demand resulting in the
export of almost the entire catches in fresh condition, the existence of only
a single channel and route of export {i.e., rail) facilitating the collection of
statistics, and the co-operation of the State Fisheries Department.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1954
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1634/2/Article_15.pdf
Jones, S and Sujansingani, K H (1954) Fish and fisheries of the Chilka Lake with statistics of fish catches for the years 1948-1950. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 1 (1&2). pp. 256-344.