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Observations on the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger canagurta (Cuvier) from the trawl catches along the Bombay coast

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Title Observations on the Indian mackerel,
Rastrelliger canagurta (Cuvier) from
the trawl catches along the
Bombay coast
 
Creator Kutty, M N
 
Subject Fisheries Resources Assessment
Mackerel fishery
 
Description Referring to the distribution of the Indian mackerel, Panikkar and
Jayaraman (1956) mention that there is a distinct and unmistakable gap in
the distribution of the major fisheries to the north of Ratnagiri and that north
of this place shoals of mackerel are not known, but the species is widely
distributed having been found in the Persian Gulf and the Bay of Bengal
and stray specimens have also been taken in the trawls operated off Kathiawar.
That the mackerel met with in the offshore catches are of importance
is known from the statement that "a full picture of the distribution will
depend on the location of the spawning grounds and the discovery whether
there is any deep sea mackerel existing in offshore regions of the coast"
(Panikkar, 1949). Mackerel in small numbers have been recorded on many
occasions from the catches of the trawlers fishing along the Bombay coast.
In one instance a dense shoal of mackerel was also encountered while the
vessel M.F.V. 'Jheenga' was trawling about 32 kilometres off Bombay at
depth of 35 metres, when about half a ton of mackerel was caught in a single
haul. An attempt is made here to summarise the observations made on the
catches of mackerel from trawlers working along the Bombay coast. The
common occurrence of mackerel, though usually in small numbers, in the
trawl catches prompts one to infer that the fish may at least occasionally move
to the deeper waters.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1962
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2036/1/Article_13.pdf
Kutty, M N (1962) Observations on the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger canagurta (Cuvier) from the trawl catches along the Bombay coast. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 9A (2). pp. 590-603.