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Schooling behaviour of tunas in Lakshadweep waters

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Title Schooling behaviour of tunas in Lakshadweep waters
 
Creator Livingston, P
 
Subject Tunas
Tuna fisheries
 
Description The paper describes nine kinds of schooling patterns of the Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus
pelamis) and the yellow fin tuna (Thunnus alDacares) In the Pole and lin (live bait) fishing grounds,
as identified by the fishermen of Lakshadweep, particularly of MInicoy. These are described here as
schooling patterns I to IX after giving their local names and some clue to their identi'i^atlon from fishing
boats. The surface or subsurface nature of occurrence of the school, its leaping feeding and swimming
activity, baiting habit, vulnerability to the gear, size* of the school, approximate size and species
composition of the school, and the association of the school with water discolouration, tlotsam, seabirds,
predators etc are described. The paper also describes four different approaches of the tuns pole
and line (live bait) boat to the different kinds of tuna schools
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2876/1/Article_27.pdf
Livingston, P (1987) Schooling behaviour of tunas in Lakshadweep waters. CMFRI Bulletin National Symposium on Research and Development in Marine Fisheries Sessions I & II 1987, 44 (1). pp. 199-214.