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Unusual landings of young oil sardine off Madras coast

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Title Unusual landings of young oil sardine off Madras coast
 
Creator Gnanamuttu, J C
Bastian, Fernando
Chandrasekhar, S
 
Subject Oil sardine
 
Description The occurrence of young oil sardines Sardine/la
longiceps noticed in good quantities from 10-24 November,
1988 in indigenous boat seine (Thuri valai) catches
is reported here. The catches were obtained in the
very early hours of the day at 3 to 5 metres depth just
about a kilometre away from the landing centre at
Kasimedu. It is not uncommon to find young oil
sardine along the west coast of India from July to
October. The present observation is the first on record
showing that young oil sardine occurs in fairly good
quantities during November along the Madras coast.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1989-06
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3080/1/Article_09.pdf
Gnanamuttu, J C and Bastian, Fernando and Chandrasekhar, S (1989) Unusual landings of young oil sardine off Madras coast. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 96. p. 14.