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Oil sardine from Oman enter fish markets of Kerala

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Title Oil sardine from Oman enter fish markets of Kerala
 
Creator Prakasan, D
Jinesh, P T
Beni, N
Rema, K V
Ganga, U
 
Subject Oil sardine
 
Description The Oil sardine Sardinella longiceps is a major
fishery resource in India and catches in 2014 were
an estimated 5.44 lakh tonnes (t). Of this, Kerala
accounted for 1.55 lakh t forming 28% of the All
India Oil sardine landings. In the domestic retail
markets of Kerala when Oil sardine prices were
ranging between ` 80 - 140 per kilogram, large sized
sardines with average weights > 120 g each were
also appearing and being sold at prices 40 - 60% higher
than the locally caught sardines. Although market
sources informed that these large sized Oil sardine
were coming from Oman, the claim could not be
traced. However, during a weekly visit to Kalamukku
landing centre, Kochi for sampling fish on 23.6.2015,
the unloading of packed cartons containing large sized
Oil sardine was observed and these were traced to
being sourced from Oman.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10624/1/223-224-5.pdf
Prakasan, D and Jinesh, P T and Beni, N and Rema, K V and Ganga, U (2015) Oil sardine from Oman enter fish markets of Kerala. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (223-24). pp. 24-25. ISSN 0254-380 X