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Fishery resources of the Rrameswaram Island

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Title Fishery resources of the
Rrameswaram Island
 
Creator Krishnamoorthi, B
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description The Rameswaram Island, a comparatively small, 64 sq. mile area lying 3
miles off the coast of Mandapam in the Ramnad District is one of the important
fishing centres of South India, fishermen forming the major portion
of its population and fishing the main occupation. Surprisingly, however,
factors hke the fishing conditions in the Island, the fishery wealth of the
area or even the order of magnitude of the annual catch hitherto
remained largely unknown. Obviously, a detailed survey, lasting for a few
years, was necessary to study the fishery resources of the Island. The work
was taken up early in 1952 at the suggestion of Dr. N. K. Panikkar. Since
no information of any kind was available to start with, a preliminary survey
was found essential to help planning the design of the actual survey. The
results of the preliminary survey are first put down in the next section.
Then the design of the actual survey has been briefly described. The rest
of the paper contains the results derived from the data collected during the
2 years' survey from July 1952 to June 1954.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1957
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1765/1/Article_03.pdf
Krishnamoorthi, B (1957) Fishery resources of the Rrameswaram Island. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 4 (2). pp. 229-253.