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Landing of a tagged black marlin Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832) at Tharuvaikulam, Tuticorin

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Title Landing of a tagged black marlin Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832)
at Tharuvaikulam, Tuticorin
 
Creator Sivadas, M
Sathakathullah, S M
Suresh Kumar, K
Kannan, K
 
Subject Fish landing
 
Description In Tharuvaikulam(8053’42"N,78009’56.6"E),
Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India, there is a regular drift
gill net (mesh size 120-140 mm) fishery targeting
mainly tunas and seer fishes. The fishing trip is
multiday (5 to 6 days) and the operation is only
during night, with normally one haul per day. In this
gear, bill fishes are also landed being entangled and
not gilled. Normally four species of billfishes are
landed such as Istiophorus platypterus, Tetrapterus
angustirostris, istiompax indica and Xiphias gladius.
On 1.2.13, two numbers of I. indica was landed
along with other fishes.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9481/1/9.pdf
Sivadas, M and Sathakathullah, S M and Suresh Kumar, K and Kannan, K (2013) Landing of a tagged black marlin Istiompax indica (Cuvier, 1832) at Tharuvaikulam, Tuticorin. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical & Extension Series (216). pp. 11-12.