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General features of the catfish fisheries

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Title General features of the catfish fisheries
 
Creator Mukundan, C
 
Subject Catfish
Fish and Fisheries
 
Description Catfishes had formed significant seasonal
fisheries along the west and east coasts of the
country since the early artisanal days, but
had seldom been viewed as anything more
than of local importance. The traditional gears
were mostly aimed at pelagic fisheries and
caught demersal species by the way when they
fished in shallower coastal areas and the gear
took in the bottom layers also. So the ground
fish contribution to the country's total marine
fish landings was small. Thus, in the earlier
years of our concern with the assessment and
development of marine fisheries, the sardine
and mackerel fisheries easily caught the
attention as national fisheries, and the prawn
fisheries rapidly turned into an export-oriented
industry and assumed tremendous importance
as a foreign-exchange earner. Many others,
potentially significant, tended to be passed
over, and the catfish fishery was among them.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2454/1/Article_04.pdf
Mukundan, C (1987) General features of the catfish fisheries. CMFRI Bulletin - Marine catfish resources of India:Exploitation and prospects, 40. pp. 1-4.