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Appraisal of the Marine Fisheries of Kerala

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Title Appraisal of the Marine Fisheries of Kerala
 
Creator Jacob, T
Rajendran, V
Pillai, P K Mahadevan
Andrews, Joseph
Satyavan, U K
 
Subject CMFRI Special Publications
Fish landing
Marine Fisheries
 
Description Kerala, the southwestern part of the peninsular India, has
a narrow stretch of land with a long surf-beaten coast on the western
side and a lush green mountain range on the eastern side. The coastline
is 590 km long, which is almost one-tenth of the Indian coastline.
Marine fishing, using artisanal tackles like boat-seines, shore-seines and
Chinese dip nets, is an age-old tradition of the state. Mechanisation was
started in late fifties by the Indo-Norwegian Project, at first in the Quilon
area. The early sixties too saw an important technological development,
namely the shift from cotton to nylon nets. By mid-sixties, individual
entrepreneures entered the scene, paving way for a fast development
of trawl fishery in the coastal waters. Commercial purse-seining started
during late seventies, and the process of large-scale motorisation of
country crafts began in early eighties.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3340/1/Special_Publication_No_35.pdf
Jacob, T and Rajendran, V and Pillai, P K Mahadevan and Andrews, Joseph and Satyavan, U K (1987) Appraisal of the Marine Fisheries of Kerala. CMFRI Special Publication (35). pp. 1-42.