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Tuna fishery of the Exclusive Economic Zone of India

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Title Tuna fishery of the Exclusive Economic Zone of India
 
Creator Silas, E G
 
Subject Tuna fisheries
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Description The first four years of the present decade has seen a concerted effort on the part of the government
as well as the fishing industry to consider tuna resources of the Exclusive Economic Zone of India and contiguous
high seas as potentially important. The report by Silas and Pillai (1982) entitled * Resources of"
tunas and related species and their fisheries in the Indian Ocean' has gone a long way in dispelling inhibitions
and reservations in many quarters on the availability of tuna resources and the need for developing a tuna
harvesting strategy. Recent developments in purse seine fishing in some countries such as Seychelles have
indicated the potentialities, but a depressing international market trend for tuna products is still stifling
investment in this sector. One silverlining is that today at any fisheries conference or seminar in India, tuna is
discussed as a potentially important resource. While for over two decades the Central Marine Fisheries
Research Institute has tried to focus attention on this important resoiwce, the Institute itself has been pursuing
with limited facilities, research programmes on tuna and tuna-like fishes. The research results embodied
in this publication was initiated by me in 1976, as a major project programme at the Institute and gradually
built up for critically examining the coastal species of tuna stocks, their biology and fisheries.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1985
 
Type Monograph
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7027/1/Bulletin_No_36.pdf
Silas, E G (1985) Tuna fishery of the Exclusive Economic Zone of India. Technical Report. CMFRI, Kochi.