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On the sei whale Balenoptera borealis Lesson stranded along Palk Bay coast near Pamban light house

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Title On the sei whale Balenoptera borealis Lesson stranded
along Palk Bay coast near Pamban light house
 
Creator Pillai, S Krishna
Jayaprakash, A A
Kasinathan, C
Ramamoorthy, N
 
Subject Marine Mammals
 
Description A Sei whale got entangled in a gill net operated near
Katchathievu on 27-l-'90 at a depth of 8.5 m at about 1900
hrs. Four boats joined together and brought the whale ashore near Pamban Light House on the 28th morning in live
condition. Attempts were made to push the whale back into
the sea but did not succeed. The medium sized female whale
measured 11.4 m in total length and weighed about 7000 kg.
The specimen was identified as Balaenoptera borealis Lesson
(Fig. 1) and it had 47 throat grooves. The morphometric
measurements are given
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1995-08
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3585/1/Article_07.pdf
Pillai, S Krishna and Jayaprakash, A A and Kasinathan, C and Ramamoorthy, N (1995) On the sei whale Balenoptera borealis Lesson stranded along Palk Bay coast near Pamban light house. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series (139). p. 11.