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Ashtamudi Clam Fishery - An example of Sustainable Management and Biodiversity Conservation

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Title Ashtamudi Clam Fishery - An example of Sustainable Management and Biodiversity Conservation
 
Creator Mohamed, K S
Malayilethu, Vinod
 
Subject Clam
 
Description Short-neck clams oryeiiow-foot clams (Paphiamalabarica) in Ashtam udi Lake are fished
by hand rake, diving and handpicking by 1,000-1,500 fishers. Commercial fishing for clams
started about 30 years ago - prior to that there had been little demand for them outside the
immediate local area where the clams have been eaten for generations. The growth of the
commercial fishery was fuelled by demand from export markets and the interest of local fish
processors in cooking, freezing and exporting the clam meat to customers in Vietnam, Thailand
and Malaysia in the 1980s and 1990s.
 
Publisher Kerala State Biodiversity Board
 
Date 2015
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10522/1/Ashtamudi%20Clam%20Fishery_Sunil%20Mohamed.pdf
Mohamed, K S and Malayilethu, Vinod (2015) Ashtamudi Clam Fishery - An example of Sustainable Management and Biodiversity Conservation. In: Biocultural Heritage and Sustainability. Kerala State Biodiversity Board, Thiruvananthapuram, pp. 69-76.