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Flatfishes, goatfishes and whitefishes

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Title Flatfishes, goatfishes and whitefishes
 
Creator Bensam, P
Devadoss, P
Mathew, Grace
Ameer Hamsa, K M S
Gandhi, V
Lazarus, S
Zacharia, P U
Feroz Khan, M
Jayasankar, P
 
Subject Goat Fishes
Demersal Fishes
Flat Fishes
 
Description Although in order to exploit these minor demersal resources
there are no specialised fishing efforts, their contribution to demersal
Jinjish production is substantial, mostly exploited by bottom trawling
in recent years. The annual flat fish production has been
amounting upto 63,344 t in 1992, that of goatfishes upto 33,300 t
in 1991 and of whitefish to 25,340 t in 1985. Of late, Kerala has
accounted for 47% flatfish production, followed by Karnataka-Goa
23% and Maharashtra 14%. For goatfishes, Tamilnadu-Pondicherry
is responsible for 41% followed by Kerala 30% and Andhra Pradesh
13%. Gujarat has been harvesting 49% of the Whitefish yield,
followed by Karnataka-Goa 18 % and Maharashtra 13%. The
present paper brings together all the available data published and
unpublished on the fishery and biology of various species
contributing to the fisheries in different parts of the country. Based
on these it is seen that the catch of the Malabar sole can be marginally
increased in Calicut but not in Mangalore. In the case of the
whitefish, there is an all-India decline in production in all the states
due to indiscriminate exploitation of juveniles by considerably small
cod end mesh size of bottom trawls. The present paper draws attention
to the gaps still existing in our knowledge and the future
research need on the fishery and biology of the important species,
stock assessment estimates, relationships between the parental
stocks and the progeny: the bottom hydrological conditions and the
biological characteristics of the various populations in space and
time, for realising the Maximum Sustainable Yield and for implementing
their management and conservation.
 
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/4305/1/40.pdf
Bensam, P and Devadoss, P and Mathew, Grace and Ameer Hamsa, K M S and Gandhi, V and Lazarus, S and Zacharia, P U and Feroz Khan, M and Jayasankar, P (2000) Flatfishes, goatfishes and whitefishes. In: Marine Fisheries Research and Management. CMFRI; Kochi, Kochi, pp. 617-635.