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Chanks caught by the research vessel Cadalmin IV from trawling grounds in Gulf of Mannar

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Title Chanks caught by the research vessel Cadalmin IV from trawling grounds in Gulf of Mannar
 
Creator Siraimeetan, Pon
Rao, K Satyanarayana
Ameer Hamsa, K M S
 
Subject Molluscan Fisheries
 
Description The Sacred Chank. Xancus pyrum was caught in bottom trawl net operated by the Research Vessel
CADALMIN IV in different areas in Gulf of Mannar. The area wise, depth wise and month wise catches of
the chanks. the ecological conditions from where they were obtained, size composition of the chanks and
length-weight relationship have been studied. Maximum number of chanks were caught from trawling
grounds off Tiruchendur coast. The highest numbers were recorded in the period Oecember-IViarch- The
chanks ranged from 25 mm to 117 mm in maximum shell diameter end 54 mm to 202 mm in length. In the
trawling grounds from where the chanks were netted the bottom was muddy sandy with rocky patches hare
and there and the other fauna found were polychaetes, crabi gastropods, bivalves, starfishes, sea urchins,
sea lillies, cephalopods etc.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1988
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2548/1/Article_28.pdf
Siraimeetan, Pon and Rao, K Satyanarayana and Ameer Hamsa, K M S (1988) Chanks caught by the research vessel Cadalmin IV from trawling grounds in Gulf of Mannar. CMFRI Bulletin, 42 (1). pp. 89-93.