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Marine catfish resources of India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4303/
 
Title Marine catfish resources of India
 
Creator Menon, N G
Balachandran, K
Zacharia, P U
Raje, S G
Feroz Khan, M
 
Subject Catfish
 
Description The marine catfish production showed a continuously declining
trend all along the Indian Coast, from 67,666 t (1982) to 37,518 t
(1995), while the situation is alarming along the SW and SE coast.
This group is one of the most vulnerable resources for irrational
harvest during their migratory and breeding phase. With the advent
of mass harvesting gear like purse seine and trawlers, there
has been a continuous onslaught on this resource during the periods
of south bound or north bound migrations parallel to the coast.
The damage is further aggravated when their spawning shoals
are exploited from the surface often causing large scale destruction
of parents and egg / embryos, leading to overfishing affecting
the recruitment to the population. The paper gives the possible
migratory route, seasons of vulnerability and impact of fishing gear
on the resources. It is attempted to corelate the surface drift with
the seasonal migrations. Various management practices
are proposed to conserve the threatened species and suggested
possible lines of exploitation preferably on the non-migratory
species from distant waters in the middle shelf.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Contributor Pillai, V N
Menon, N G
 
Date 2000
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4303/1/38.pdf
Menon, N G and Balachandran, K and Zacharia, P U and Raje, S G and Feroz Khan, M (2000) Marine catfish resources of India. In: Marine Fisheries Research and Management. CMFRI; Kochi, Kochi, pp. 579-603.