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Title Lobsters
 
Creator Suseelan, C
Pillai, N N
Radhakrishnan, E V
Rajan, K N
Nair, K R Manmadhan
Sampson Manickam, P E
Saleela, K N
 
Subject Crustacean Fisheries
Lobsters
 
Description Among marine crustaceans, lobsters are the most highly priced
ones and of significant commercial interest in many countries. Due to their
increasing demand as a favourite of epicurean gourmets, lobsters have
captured excellent markets in developed countries. Lobster fishing,
therefore, is practised on intensive scale throughout the world and a stage
has com e that most of the traditional lobster stocks are under heavy
exploitation now. According to World Fishery Statistics, the annual lobster
production of the world during 1981 - 1990 period ranged from 1.8 lakh
tonnes in 1982 to 2.3 lakh tonnes in 1989, thereby showing an increase of
only 28% over the years. The average annual production of about 2.1 lakh
tonnes of lobsters, which included 1.9 lakh tonnes of spiny lobsters and
allied species (92%) and 0.2 lakh tonnes of squat lobsters (8 %), form ed 6 %
of the world crustacean landings from the marine sector. The contribution
of the form er group from Indian Ocean region for the same period was
about 60,000 tonnes on an average of which over 70% was recorded in the
Western Indian Ocean mainly from the coasts of South Africa, Om an and
Republic of Yemen. India landed an average of about 24,000 tonnes, of
which nearly 90% came from the west coast.
 
Publisher Marine Products Export Development Authority
 
Date 1996
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14160/1/Shrimps%20Lobsters%20and%20Mud%20crabs_1996_Handbook%20on%20Aquafarming_MPEDA_Saleela%20K%20N_Lobsters.pdf
Suseelan, C and Pillai, N N and Radhakrishnan, E V and Rajan, K N and Nair, K R Manmadhan and Sampson Manickam, P E and Saleela, K N (1996) Lobsters. In: Shrimps Lobsters Mud crabs. Handbook on Aquafarming . Marine Products Export Development Authority, Kochi, pp. 48-54.