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Food of the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier) taken by drift-nets in the Arabian sea off Vizhingam, South Kerala

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Title Food of the Indian mackerel,
Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier)
taken by drift-nets in the Arabian sea
off Vizhingam, South Kerala
 
Creator Rao, K V Narayana
 
Subject Fishery biology
Food and Feeding
 
Description Being one of the most important neritic pelagic specie:., the Indian mackerel,
RastrelUger kanagurta (Cuvier), has been, the object of investigations by many
fishery biologists. On the West Coast of India, while this species supports
a rich commercial fishery, its distribution on the East Coast is only of biological
interest. Most of the earlier works (Devanesan and John, 1940;
Devanesan, 1942; John and Menon, 1942 and Chidambaram, 1944) are
of brief notes dealing with the nature of food of the mackerel on the West
Coast of India. In recent years, Chidambaram et al. (1952) have studied in
detail the fat variations, sizo composition, maturity and food habits of the
mackerel. Bhimachar and George (1952) have given a detailed account of
the seasonal fluctuations in the food of this species from Calicut. Mention
should be made of the comprehensive works of Pradhan (1956) and Sekharan
(1958) on the fishery and certain biological aspscts of the mackerel from the
Konkan Coast. Our knowledge on the biology of this species from the East
Coast of India is confined to the recent works of Kuthalingam (1956) from
Madras, Rao and Rao (1957) and Rao (1962) from Waltair.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1962
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2032/1/Article_10.pdf
Rao, K V Narayana (1962) Food of the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier) taken by drift-nets in the Arabian sea off Vizhingam, South Kerala. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 9A (2). pp. 530-541.