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Fishery resources of spiny lobsters in the Andaman Island, India

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Title Fishery resources of spiny lobsters in the Andaman Island, India
 
Creator Kumar, T S
Jha, Dilip Kumar
Jahan, S Syed
Dharani, G
Nazar, A K A
Sakthivel, M
Alagaraja, K
Vijayakumaran, M
Kirubagaran, R
 
Subject Lobsters
 
Description The Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Islands is the largest archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. In spite
of availability of diverse lobster resources, there is no organised lobster fishing in the Islands. The
main objective of the study was to collect baseline data on the lobster resources of the Andaman Island.
Periodic field surveys were carried out at 33 landing centres in the Andaman and data were collected
by direct observation and questionnaires. Mechanised and non-mechanised fishing crafts are engaged
in lobster fishing in the Island. Lobsters are manually caught by spears, gillnet, shoreseine and handpicking.
Six commercially important species of spiny lobsters, Panulirus penicillatus, P. versicolor,
P. homarus, P. ornatus, P. polyphagus and P. longipes are present in the island. Among them, P.
penicillatus dominated the landings throughout the study period (1999-2000), with maximum catch
in January, followed by P. versicolor. The total lobster landings in Andaman during the study period
were estimated as 3.16 tonnes with maximum landings in south Andaman (Port Blair).
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7909/1/Nasar_p166-169.pdf
Kumar, T S and Jha, Dilip Kumar and Jahan, S Syed and Dharani, G and Nazar, A K A and Sakthivel, M and Alagaraja, K and Vijayakumaran, M and Kirubagaran, R (2010) Fishery resources of spiny lobsters in the Andaman Island, India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 52 (2). pp. 166-169.