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Stock assessment of mackerel in the Indian seas

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Title Stock assessment of mackerel in the Indian seas
 
Creator Yohannan, T M
Ganga, U
Rohit, Prathibha
Pillai, P P
Nair, P N Radhakrishnan
Gopakumar, G
Kasim, H M
Abdussamad, E M
Sreenivasagam, K
Shanmugavel, A
Sumithrudu, M S
 
Subject Mackerel fishery
 
Description Along both the coasts they start appearing in the catches when they are about two
months old. But, along the west coast they are fiilly recruited to the fishery at an age
of 6 months and along the east coast this happens at an age of 9 months. Bulk of the
catches from west coast is by large seines of small meshes where young ones are
liable to be caught and peak catches are from the size group of 140-149 mm. The
major gear along the east coast is gill net with larger mesh and peak catches are from
size group 190-199 mm. Along the west coast the estimated annual total mortality is
3.6. With an estimated M of 2.64 the fishing mortality F is 0.96 at an exploitation
rate of 0.27 and E _^ estimated is 0.70.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Contributor Pillai, N G K
Menon, N G
Pillai, P P
Ganga, U
 
Date 2002
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4124/1/13.pdf
Yohannan, T M and Ganga, U and Rohit, Prathibha and Pillai, P P and Nair, P N Radhakrishnan and Gopakumar, G and Kasim, H M and Abdussamad, E M and Sreenivasagam, K and Shanmugavel, A and Sumithrudu, M S (2002) Stock assessment of mackerel in the Indian seas. In: Management of Scombroid Fisheries. CMFRI; Kochi, Kochi, pp. 101-107.