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Lobsters: Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14025/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9094-5
 
Title Lobsters: Biology, Fisheries
and Aquaculture
 
Creator Radhakrishnan, E V
Phillips, Bruce F
Gopalakrishnan, A
 
Subject Lobsters
 
Description Lobster is one of the most important commercially harvested marine resources in
the world because of its higher economic importance. The high-value crustaceans
support some of the most profitable fisheries in many countries of the world. World
capture fisheries production of lobsters touched an all-time high of 0.3 million
tonnes in 2016 with an additional 2000 tonnes from aquaculture. The major lobster-producing
countries are Canada, USA, UK, Australia, Indonesia, Cuba, Brazil and
Mexico. With over 260 species of extant lobsters under 54 genera identified till date,
they constitute one of the prominent groups under the suborder Macrura Reptantia,
owing to their large size and reasonably dense population forming commercially
important fisheries in many parts of the world. Apart from their economic importance,
they play a key role in maintaining and balancing the marine ecosystem, acting
both as a benthic predator and as a prey. The world trade in lobsters grew
substantially from 110,000 tonnes in 2001 to 170,000 tonnes in 2014 valued at
US$3.3 billion. The scientific investigation on clawed and spiny lobsters gained
importance as their fisheries became more profitable and the need for management
of the resource more inevitable. Biological research on scyllarid lobsters was on a
low key as they are not as commercially important as the nephropid and palinurid
lobsters. However, failure of spiny lobster fisheries in some parts of the world due
to overexploitation and poor management triggered commercial interest shifting
towards the scyllarids. They form an important by-product in trawl fisheries, and
wherever they are directly targeted, their volume has declined sharply and the fishery
collapsed with no sign of recovery even after many years.
 
Publisher Springer Nature
 
Date 2019
 
Type Book
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14025/1/Lobster_2019_EVR_AKGN.pdf
Radhakrishnan, E V and Phillips, Bruce F and Gopalakrishnan, A (2019) Lobsters: Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture. Springer Nature, Singapore.