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Studies on the taxonomy, some aspects of biology and population dynamics of the silverbellies (Pisces: Leiognathidae) exploited along the Kerala coast, India

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Title Studies on the taxonomy, some aspects of biology and population dynamics of the silverbellies (Pisces: Leiognathidae) exploited along the Kerala coast, India
 
Creator Abraham, K J
 
Subject Fish Taxonomy
Theses
Biology
Population Dynamics
Silverbellies
 
Description The burgeoning world population has prompted mankind to. exploit new
and varied avenues for acquiring food. The sea is often seen as a vast and
endless source of food for mankind. The f.ishery resources of the sea have
been exploited by man from time immemorial and the recent rapid strides in
technology have enabled him to utilise the vast and deep expanses of the
oceans effectively. The total annual world fish production is estimated as
92.86 million tonnes in 1999. Of this, production from marine fisheries alone
accounted for 84.6 million tonnes (FAO, 1999). India ranks eighth (FAO,
1999) in the total fish production in the world. With its long coastline of 8129
km and an extensive Exclusive Economic Zone of 2.02 million sq km, with an
estimated fishery resources potential of 3.9 million tonnes (Anon, 2000), the
importance of the marine fisheries sector in the national economy, food
security and employment generation need not be overemphasised. In the
3651 fishing villages situated along the coastline, about one million people are
employed full time in marine capture fisheries. The fish ing sector dominated
by small scale and semi industrial operations, support several ancillary
industries such as boat building yards, processing plants etc (Devaraj and
Vivekanandan, 1999).
Marine fisheries operations have grown from a subsistence level
carried out almost exclusively by the traditional fishermen in the preindependence
days, to that of a capital-intensive industry requiring close
monitoring and management for their sustainability. In the course of the past
over five decades of independence, the average annual marine fish
production increased from six lakh tonnes in the fifties to the current level of
2.72 mt in 2000.
The mechanisation of indigenous artisanal fishing craft and the
introduction of modern gear materials during the fifties, introduction of
synthetic gear materials during the sixties, advent of purse seining and the
motorisation of artisanal craft in the seventies and the substantial growth of
motorised artisanal craft operating ring-seines in the eighties were some of
the factors contributing to the phenomenal growth of the fisheries sector
(Devaraj et al., 1997).
 
Date 2001
 
Type Thesis
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7144/1/TH-96_Abr.pdf
Abraham, K J (2001) Studies on the taxonomy, some aspects of biology and population dynamics of the silverbellies (Pisces: Leiognathidae) exploited along the Kerala coast, India. ["eprint_fieldopt_thesis_type_phd" not defined] thesis, Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Versova.