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Tuna pole and line (live bait) fishing technique of Lakshadweep - some suggestions for improvement

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Title Tuna pole and line (live bait) fishing
technique of Lakshadweep - some
suggestions for improvement
 
Creator Livingston, P
 
Subject Tuna fisheries
 
Description Adding tome essential details to the existing scientific exposition of the Tuns Pole and
Line (TPL) fishing technique with live bait of Lakshadweep, the present paper deals largely on a
comparative study of this technique with the TPL technique operallng In Japanese, Californian and
Polynesian waters, Based on this comparative study soma suggestions are given for Improving the
craft, gear and gear-making with regard to the TPL fishing technique of Lal^shadweep. Besides
the need for having better objectives of mechanisation improvements in : Size and cruising range of
fishing hosts; general feature of the fishing boats; types of engines used; live-bait equipment used;
onboard facilities for the operation of the fishing gear; fish preservation and handling equipment
onboard; facilities for crew accommodation onboard; navigation, comnnunication and fish finding
equipments onboard; combination fishing boats; alternative fishing boat; ancillary ships; materials
used for construction of boats and also Improvement In patrol and transport work undertaken by
the fishing boats are suggested. Also, the need for introducing the team-gear, bait-hook, lure-hook
and striker and for improving the mode of angling, chumming and water splashing is stressed. The
urgent need for modernising the TPL gear making Industry by indigenously making TPL hooks, lurehooks,
bait hooks and strikers; by supplying FRP Poles and quality bamboo Poles and the other
fishery requisites at subsidy and by introducing quarantine and quality control measures to maintain
the quality of bamboo Pole* Is stressed.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1990
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3118/1/Article_28.pdf
Livingston, P (1990) Tuna pole and line (live bait) fishing technique of Lakshadweep - some suggestions for improvement. CMFRI Bulletin-National symposium on research and development in marine fisheries Sessions III & IV 1987, 44 (2). pp. 456-469.