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Heavy landings of the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus at Cochin Fisheries Harbour

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Title Heavy landings of the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus
at Cochin Fisheries Harbour
 
Creator Sobhana, K S
Seetha, P K
Kishore, T G
Divya, D D
Najmudeen, T M
Nair, Rekha J
Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe
Zacharia, P U
 
Subject Fish landing
Shark fisheries
 
Description During January - February 2013, heavy landings
of the shortfin mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus (Family:
Lamnidae) by multiday gillnet-hooks and line units
were observed at Cochin Fisheries harbour (CFH)
(Fig. 1a & b). I. oxyrinchus is generally seen in the
landings by gillnet-hooks and line units (operated off
the west coast of India extending from Kerala to
Gujarat coasts) at CFH, but in small numbers of larger
specimens. The start of 2013 fishing season
witnessed heavy landings of this species, of a wide
size range (100 – 220 cm total length; 7 – 75 kg
weight), dominating the shark landings at CFH
second to Carcharhinus falciformis on certain days.
The length-frequency distribution as well as detailed
biological aspects of this species is currently being
studied as part of the Institute research project on
“Assessment of elasmobranch resources of Indian
Seas”
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9438/1/19.pdf
Sobhana, K S and Seetha, P K and Kishore, T G and Divya, D D and Najmudeen, T M and Nair, Rekha J and Kizhakudan, Shoba Joe and Zacharia, P U (2013) Heavy landings of the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus at Cochin Fisheries Harbour. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (215). p. 30.