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A preliminary account of the fisheries of Vizhinjam

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Title A preliminary account of the fisheries
of Vizhinjam
 
Creator Nayar, S Gopalan
 
Subject Fish and Fisheries
 
Description As a part of the research programme of the Central Marine Fisheries
Research Station, it was decided in 1948 to conduct a survey of the Indian
coastline to estimate the marine fish landing s,and to find out the types of
fish stocks available. As very little work (Bal and Banerji, 1951) has been
done in the past regarding the fishery resources of our country, a preliminary
survey was found essential before embarking on the final programme. With
this in view, the author conducted a preliminary survey in 1949 to ascertain
the number of fishing villages, boats, nets and fishermen along the coastal
strip extending from Cape Comorin in the south to Ponnani River in Malabar
District in the north. Based on the data thus collected, the final design to
estimate the landings was made. Initially five observation centres, Blangad
in South Malabar, Narakkal and Malippuram in Trichur District, Wadi
in Quilon District, and Vizhingam in Trivandrum District, of the erstwhile
Travancore-Cochin State, were selected. Regular observations were taken
at these centres in 1950. From 1951 onwards observations were restricted
to two centres, Narakkal and Vizhingam, and from January 1953 to August
1954 observations were confined to Vizhingam alone. From September
1954 onwards two more centres. Cape Comorin and Wadi, were also included
for the estimation of fish landings. As Vizhingam is a very important
fishing centre, and as data for five consecutive years were available it was
decided to embody the observations in the present paper as suggested by
Dr. N. K. Panikkar, the then Chief Research Officer, Central Marine
Fisheries Research Station, Mandapam Camp.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1958
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1782/1/Article_04.pdf
Nayar, S Gopalan (1958) A preliminary account of the fisheries of Vizhinjam. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 5 (1). pp. 32-55.