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Biology and Fishery of the Slipper Lobster; Thenus Orientalis, in India

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Title Biology and Fishery of the Slipper Lobster; Thenus Orientalis, in India
 
Creator Radhakrishnan, E V
Manisseri, Mary K
Deshmukh, V D
 
Subject Lobsters
 
Description Commercially exploited, edible lobsters in India belong to the families Palinuridae and
Scyllaridae, the latter representing only one species, Thenus orientalis (Lund 1793). The
introduction of mechanized trawlers for fishing and the attractive prices that export
of frozen rock lobster tail fetched in the early 1970s resulted in the exploitation of lobster
resources on a commercial scale. Thenus orientalis found along both the east and
west coasts of India formed and continues to sustain fisheries of importance along the
northwest and southeast coasts, where their landings are mainly as by-catch of trawlers.
India has a multispecies lobster fishery: T. orientalis dominates the fishery in Gujarat
and northern Tamil Nadu, Panulirus polyphagus Herbst, 1793 dominates in Maharashtra,
Puerulus sewelli Ramadan, 1938 dominates in Kerala and Panulirus ornatus Fabricius, 1798
and F! homarus Linnaeus, 1758 dominates in southern Tamil Nadu.
 
Publisher C R C Press
 
Contributor Lavalli, Kari L
Spanier, Ehud
 
Date 2007
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/6052/1/466.pdf
Radhakrishnan, E V and Manisseri, Mary K and Deshmukh, V D (2007) Biology and Fishery of the Slipper Lobster; Thenus Orientalis, in India. In: Biology and Fishery of the Slipper Lobster. C R C Press, U S A, pp. 309-324. ISBN 0-8493-3398-9