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Unusual heavy landings of dolphinfish, Coryphaena hippurus at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour

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Title Unusual heavy landings of dolphinfish, Coryphaena hippurus
at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour
 
Creator Ram Mohan, K
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
Rao, M V Hanumantha
Uma Mahesh, V
Maheswarudu, G
 
Subject Fish landing
 
Description Heavy landing of the dolphinfish, Coryphaena
hippurus was observed in hooks and lines at
Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour on 12th October,
2012 (Fig 1a & b) . Around 7,245 kg of C. hippurus
was landed by 90 units on that day. This is the first
instance of such huge landing of the dolphinfish at
Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbor. In addition to
C. hippurus, other species landed were Thunnus
albacares (3717 kg), Makaira indica (1710 kg),
Megalaspis cordyla (1692 kg), Euthynnus affinis
(1170 kg), Katsuwonus pelamis (828 kg) and
Scomberomorus guttatus (351 kg).
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9437/1/18.pdf
Ram Mohan, K and Ghosh, Shubhadeep and Rao, M V Hanumantha and Uma Mahesh, V and Maheswarudu, G (2013) Unusual heavy landings of dolphinfish, Coryphaena hippurus at Visakhapatnam Fishing Harbour. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (215). p. 29.