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The tuna live-bait fishery of Minicoy Island

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Title The tuna live-bait fishery of
Minicoy Island
 
Creator Jones, S
 
Subject Pelagic Fisheries
 
Description The Island of Minicoy (latitude 8° 7'N. and longitude 73° 19'E.) in the
Indian Ocean (Figs. 1 a and b), is famous for the tuna fishery, which forms
the most important industry of the Island. It has a total population of
about 4,000 of which 640, including boys, are professional fishermen, supplemented
by about 300 part-time fishermen at the height of the tuna fishing
season. The fishery now brings an annual income of over Rs. 500,000 to
the islanders whose other sources of income, which are far less than the above,
are only from coconut produce and remittances from sailors serving as
deck hands in ocean-going merchant vessels. The tuna which forms the
mainstay of the industry is the Oceanic Skipjack, Katsuwonus pelamis
(Linnaeus) [Euthynnus pelamis (Linnaeus)] locally known as Kaliphilamas
which occur in appreciable numbers from September to April, with
December to March forming the peak season, though the Yellowfin, Neothunnus
macropterus (Temminck and Schlegel), known as Kannali-mas are
also caught. The meat is converted into fish sticks or mas-min, a hard dry
product obtained by boiling the fiUetted meat in brine and subsequently
smoking it and drying it in the sun. The tuna bait fishery is dealt with in
this note while the fishing industry in general of Minicoy is being dealt with
elsewhere.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1958
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/1841/1/Article_08.pdf
Jones, S (1958) The tuna live-bait fishery of Minicoy Island. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 5 (2). pp. 300-307.