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Mangroves and fisheries

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Title Mangroves and fisheries
 
Creator CMFRI, Kochi
 
Subject Mangroves
 
Description The occurrence of mangrove
forests and swamps in the intertidal
regions is characteristic
of the tropical coastline. The
word mangrove refers to the
community of salt loving trees
and shurbs which colonise soft
muddy shores bordering protected
bays, lagoons, backwaters
and river estuaries.
Wherever they have developed
as forests, they are the.concern
of forest and revenue depart-
ments and in other places
where their formation Has been
reduced to shrubs and marshes
they are considered as wasteland
or derelict forests.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1984
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6550/1/Mangroves_and_fisheries.pdf
CMFRI, Kochi (1984) Mangroves and fisheries. CMFRI Newsletter No.25 July- September 1984, 25. pp. 3-9.