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The food and feeding habits of the Indian oil sardine Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes

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Title The food and feeding habits of the Indian oil sardine
Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes
 
Creator Kagwade, P V
 
Subject Oil sardine
Food and Feeding
 
Description nformation on the food of the Indian oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps, known
as Mathi in Malayalam, forming one of the foremost commercially important
fisheries of the west coast of India, is fragmentary. As stated by Homell (1910)
the food of the oil sardine from the fish curing yards of the Madras State
-was reported to be 'mud' but, he described for the first time some of the food
constituents of the species. Further, in 1924 he along with Nayudu gave a
detailed account of the food composition and its seasonal fluctuations. Information
about the nature of the food of this fish is available from the works of
John and Menon (1942), Chidambaram (1950), Devanesan and Chidambaram
(1953) and Dhulkhed (1962). Nair and Subrahmanyam (1955) and Nair (1960)
are of the opinion that the diatom, Fragilaria oceanica is an indicator of the
abundance of the Indian oil sardine.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1964
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2149/1/Article_22.pdf
Kagwade, P V (1964) The food and feeding habits of the Indian oil sardine Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 11 A (1). pp. 345-370.