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Status of longtail tuna, Thunnus tonggol fishery along the Northwest coast of India

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Title Status of longtail tuna, Thunnus tonggol fishery along the Northwest coast of India
 
Creator Pillai, N G K
Ganga, U
Dhokia, H K
 
Subject Tuna fisheries
 
Description Longtail tuna, Thunnus tonggol, is a neritic species with continuous
distribution along the continent of Asia from Iran to mainland China (Yesaki,
1993). The average landings during the 1995-2002 period along the Indian coast
was about 5970 t of which 78% was contributed from the North-west region.
Although the species has so far been reported to be exploited marginally only,
since 1998 there has been a perceptible intensification of fishing activities mainly
due to technological advancements all along the Indian coast and especially so
along the North-west coast (Anon., 1996). Catches of T. tonggol which has
shown an increasing trend along the North-west coast since the early 90s peaked
during 2000 and subsequently showed a sudden decline with catches as low as
when the fishery was just developing during 1990-92 period.
 
Date 2003
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10118/1/tunameet2003.pdf
Pillai, N G K and Ganga, U and Dhokia, H K (2003) Status of longtail tuna, Thunnus tonggol fishery along the Northwest coast of India. In: Proceedings of the Tuna Meet, 26-27 September 2003, Kochi.