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On the bumper catch of balistids from Tuticorin with notes on length-weight relationship and gut contents

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Title On the bumper catch of balistids from Tuticorin with
notes on length-weight relationship and gut contents
 
Creator Balasubramanian, T S
Rajapackiam, S
Ameer Hamsa, K M S
Mohamad Kasim, H
 
Subject Demersal Fishes
 
Description Three species, Balistes niger (Shaw) Odonus niger (Rupell) and Balistes capistratus
(Shaw) constituted 89.5%, 8.6% and 1.9% of
the Balistid fishery respectively. Samples ofBalistids were obtained at random and detailed
analyses were carried out in the laboratory on the
size range, length-weight relationship, gut contents
and stages of maturity of gonads. The size of
B. niger ranged from 125-129 to 160-164 mm with
a single mode at 145 - 149 mm suggesting a single
brood stock having been recruited into the fishery.
The second dominant species O.niger exhibited a
size range from 120 - 124 mm to 180 - 184 mm with
two modes at 130 - 134 and 145 - 149 mm, and the
size of B. capistratus varied from 140 - 144 mm to
210-214 mm with two dominant modes at 160 -
164 and 185 - 189 mm indicating a possible
recruitment of two brood stocks in the fishery at
two different time in these two latter species
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1995-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3257/1/Article_11.pdf
Balasubramanian, T S and Rajapackiam, S and Ameer Hamsa, K M S and Mohamad Kasim, H (1995) On the bumper catch of balistids from Tuticorin with notes on length-weight relationship and gut contents. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 137. pp. 18-19.