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Unusual landing of the sharks at Sassoon dock landing centre, Mumbai

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Title Unusual landing of the sharks at Sassoon dock landing centre, Mumbai
 
Creator Purushottama, G B
Ramkumar, S
Thakurdas,
Hotagi, Jayadev S
 
Subject Fish landing
Shark fisheries
 
Description On 5th June 2013, unusual landing of the tiger
shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), the spot-tail shark
(Carcharhinus sorrah), the bull shark (Carcharhinus
leucas) and the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus
limbatus) belongs to the family Carcharhinidae was
observed at Sassoon dock (Fig. 1). About 4 tonnes
of sharks of the above species in the length range
of 1.5 – 3.25 m and weight ranging from 50 to 120
kg were landed by trawler.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text/html
application/pdf
 
Language en
en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9928/1/12.pdf
http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9928/2/12.pdf
Purushottama, G B and Ramkumar, S and Thakurdas, and Hotagi, Jayadev S (2013) Unusual landing of the sharks at Sassoon dock landing centre, Mumbai. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical & Extension Series (218). pp. 17-18.