Record Details

Sharks and rays in Indian commercial fisheries: need for revision of taxonomy

CMFRI Repository

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9680/
 
Title Sharks and rays in Indian commercial fisheries:
need for revision of taxonomy
 
Creator Bineesh, K K
Gopalakrishnan, A
Jena, J K
Akhilesh, K V
Basheer, V S
Pillai, N G K
 
Subject Taxonomy
 
Description India is one of the leading chondrichthyan fishing nations, with an estimated landing of 52,602
tonnes (sharks 44.6%, rays 51.5% and skates 3.9%) in 2012 , contributing 1.3% to the total
marine fish landings in the country. While there is a targeted fishery for sharks and rays, these
groups constitute an important bycatch of commercial fisheries for bony fishes and shellfishes
as well. The fishery is dominated by species belonging to families Carcharhinidae, Dasyatidae,
Alopiidae, Sphyrnidae and Mobulidae. Earlier publications during different periods have
recorded that 84 to 114 species occurring Indian seas. A study by Akhilesh (2013) catalogued
220 chondrichthyans listed from India, including 60 species of uncertain taxonomic status
indicating the need for species diversity surveys. Thus there is confusion and inconsistencies in
species identification, which is an impediment for arriving at conclusions on species listing and
protection. The present paper is an attempt to highlight this issue with examples and stress the
need to resolve the issues through conventional and molecular identification techniques.
 
Date 2013
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9680/1/K.K.Bineesh_Ecosystem_Approaches_to_the_Management_and_Conservation_of_Fisheries_and_Marine_Biodiversity_in_the_Asia_Region.pdf
Bineesh, K K and Gopalakrishnan, A and Jena, J K and Akhilesh, K V and Basheer, V S and Pillai, N G K (2013) Sharks and rays in Indian commercial fisheries: need for revision of taxonomy. In: Regional Symposium on Ecosystem Approaches to Marine Fisheries & Biodiversity, October 27-30, 2013, Kochi.