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Rare landing of the wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1831) at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour, Andhra Pradesh

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Title Rare landing of the wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1831)
at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour, Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Uma Mahesh, V
Rao, M V Hanumantha
Satish Kumar, M
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
Maheswarudu, G
 
Subject Rare occurrence
Fish landing
 
Description Rare occurrence of the wahoo, Acanthocybium
solandri (Cuvier, 1831) was observed at
Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour on 14th February 2013
(Fig. 1a, b & c). The genus Acanthocybium is closely
related to Scomberomorus and is represented by a
single species, A. solandri. The seerfish group
(Scomberomorus and Acanthocybium genus)
contributes less than 2% to the total landings from the
western Indian Ocean (FAO Area 51, FAO, 1994).
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9435/1/16.pdf
Uma Mahesh, V and Rao, M V Hanumantha and Satish Kumar, M and Ghosh, Shubhadeep and Maheswarudu, G (2013) Rare landing of the wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1831) at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour, Andhra Pradesh. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (215). pp. 26-27.