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Study on the fluctuations in the occurrence of the major tuna live-bait fishes of Minicoy

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Title Study on the fluctuations in the occurrence of the major tuna live-bait fishes of Minicoy
 
Creator Thomas, P T
 
Subject Tuna fisheries
 
Description Minicoy, the southernmost island of the Laccadive Archipelago, is the most important tuna fishing
centre in the Indian Union. The fishing industry of the island with special reference to the tuna
fishery has been comprehensively desc?ibed by Jones and Kumaran (1959). The entire fishery is
a pole and line one for the oceanic skipjack Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus) mainly and the yellowfin
tuna Neothunnus macropterus (Temminck & Schlegel), using live-bait fishes. The tuna livebait
fishery of Minicoy has been dealt with in detail by Jones (1958). Appreciable fluctuations
have been noticed in the catches in the island from year to year. Even though large shoals may be
available for capture in the vicinity of the island, t k gmiktbility of the right kind of bait fishes in
sufficient quantities throughout the fishing season, may be a factof influencing the catches of a particular
year. About forty species of fishes are used by the fishermen of Minicoy as tuna live-bait.
Of these only ten species show regularity in their occurrence, the rest being specimens entering the
nets during fishing. The present study reports on the relative abundance of the major species of
live-bait fishes of Minicoy.
 
Date 1962
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6794/1/a_study_on_the_fluctuation.pdf
Thomas, P T (1962) Study on the fluctuations in the occurrence of the major tuna live-bait fishes of Minicoy. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Scombroid Fishes, Part 2, MBAI, 12-15 January 1962, Mandapam.