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On a leatherback turtle caught from Palk Bay, off Mandapam

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Title On a leatherback turtle caught from Palk Bay, off Mandapam
 
Creator Rao, P Vedavyasa
Jayaprakash, A A
Ramamoorthy, M
 
Subject Marine Turtle
 
Description Live leatherback turtle Dermochelyscoriacea, popularly known as 'Eluvarai aamai' or 'Dhoni aamai' in Tamil, got entangled in gill net ('Choodai valai') operated by one of theme chanised indigenous boats in the fishing ground, 12 km northwest of Mandapam in the Palk Bay, was brought ashore at the Mandapam fish landing centre near the fish farm of the Regional Centre.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1989-05
 
Type Article
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Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2900/1/Article_08.pdf
Rao, P Vedavyasa and Jayaprakash, A A and Ramamoorthy, M (1989) On a leatherback turtle caught from Palk Bay, off Mandapam. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 95. p. 9.