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Note on catfish landing with gravid females, male brooders and young ones at Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu

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Title Note on catfish landing with gravid females, male
brooders and young ones at Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
 
Creator Sivadas, M
Pradeep, S
Vishnu, P
Vasu, R
 
Subject Catfish
Fish landing
Demersal Fisheries
 
Description In Tamil Nadu catfish is landed mainly as a by-catch
in trawlers, drift gill netters and the hook and line
units. In 2018, the total catfish landing in Tamil Nadu
was 4165 t of which almost 90 % was contributed by
trawlers. On 22.8.2019, around 3000 kg of catfish, Arius
maculatus was landed by a ring seiner at Cuddalore,
Tamil Nadu. The catch was comprised of gravid females
and incubating males of total length ranging from 350
mm to 370 mm. Along with the catch, eggs in various
stages of development, juveniles with yolk and without
yolk were also seen in good quantity in the boat. One
gravid ovary contained 24 eggs in the right ovary and 29
in the left.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2019
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14417/1/MFIS_241_Sivadas%20M_1_2019.pdf
Sivadas, M and Pradeep, S and Vishnu, P and Vasu, R (2019) Note on catfish landing with gravid females, male brooders and young ones at Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (241). p. 32. ISSN ISSN 0254-380 X