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Current Status of fisheries for tunas and tuna-like fishes in India

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Title Current Status of fisheries for tunas and tuna-like fishes in India
 
Creator Somvanshi, V S
Pillai, N G K
John, M E
 
Subject Fisheries Survey
Marine Fisheries
Tuna fisheries
 
Description The Indian tuna fishery comprises two distinct segments, the
coastal fishery and the oceanic fishery. The main components
of the coastal tuna fishery are the gillnet fishery around
mainland India, in which different species of tunas and tunalike species occur, and the pole-and-line and troll line
fisheries exploiting skipjack and young yellowfin tuna
around the Lakshadweep Islands. The oceanic fishery uses
exclusively longlines, targeting large deep-swimming
yellowfin and bigeye tunas. The status of the coastal fishery was last reviewed by Pillai et al. (1995), and that of the oceanic fishery by Somvanshi and John (1995). The present paper gives an update of the national tuna fishery, both the coastal and oceanic segments, and its recent trends. All three groups of resources (tunas, billfishes and seerfishes) are covered.
 
Date 1998
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/8745/1/IOTC-1998-Somvanshi.pdf
Somvanshi, V S and Pillai, N G K and John, M E (1998) Current Status of fisheries for tunas and tuna-like fishes in India. In: 7th Expert Consultation on Indian Ocean Tunas, 9-14 November, 1998, Victoria, Seychelles.