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Present status of exploitation of fish and shellfish resources : Threadfin breams

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Title Present status of exploitation of fish and shellfish resources :
Threadfin breams
 
Creator Murty, V Sriramachandra
Nair, K V Somasekharan
Thomas, P A
Lazarus, S
Chakraborty, S K
Raje, S G
Gopal, C
Zacharia, P U
Velayudhan, A K
 
Subject Threadfin Breams
 
Description Threadfin breams, an important demersal fishery resource along the Indian west coast, are mainly exploited by
small commercial trawlers in depths upto about 50 m. These fishes are more abundant in relatively deeper waters beyond
50 m and are known to move into shallower areas during monsoon period along southwest coast. Along Kerala Coast,
maximum catches and catch rates are obtained during monsoon period. There is no significant trawling along
Maharashtra and practically no trawling along Kamataka and Gujarat Coasts during monsoon period. Two species
viz. Nemipterus japonicus and N. mesoprion, contribute to the fishery and along Kerala Coast, the latter species is the
principal one during monsoon perioid and the former in other period. Along the coasts of other States in the west
coast, the principal species is N. japonicus in all seasons. Fishes of larger lengths are caught in monsoon period and
of smaller lengths in postmonsoon period at Cochin. At Bombay, the average length is highest during the postmonsoon
and lowest during monsoon in N. japonicus. Nemipterids spawn over longer periods and in N. japonicus peak spawning
takes place during monsoon at Cochin and Bombay, during postmonsoon at Veraval and partly during post and premonsoon
periods at Mangalore. In N. mesoprion, peak spawning takes place during pxwtmonsoon period at Cochin and
Veraval and during monsoon period at Bombay.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1992
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2729/2/Article_14.pdf
Murty, V Sriramachandra and Nair, K V Somasekharan and Thomas, P A and Lazarus, S and Chakraborty, S K and Raje, S G and Gopal, C and Zacharia, P U and Velayudhan, A K (1992) Present status of exploitation of fish and shellfish resources : Threadfin breams. CMFRI Bulletin, 45. pp. 154-168.