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Incidental landing of lesser devil ray Mobula diabolus (Shaw, 1804) at Dummulapeta and Bhairavapalem, Andhra Pradesh

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Title Incidental landing of lesser devil ray Mobula diabolus (Shaw, 1804)
at Dummulapeta and Bhairavapalem, Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Satish Kumar, M
Uma Mahesh, V
Rao, M V Hanumantha
Ghosh, Shubhadeep
 
Subject Fish landing
Ray fisheries
 
Description Landings of lesser devil ray, Mobula diabolus
(Shaw, 1804) were reported at Dummulapeta and
Bhairavapalem landing centers of Andhra Pradesh
from 21.03.2012 to 23.03.2012. A total of 23 mobulid
rays were caught incidentally in drift gill nets set in
surface waters for targeting yellow fin tuna shoals
by motorized gillnetters, 20 km away from the
shore. The disc length of Mobula diabolus ranged
from 62-105 cm, disc width from 97-163 cm and
weighed between 40 and 110 kg.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/9488/1/16.pdf
Satish Kumar, M and Uma Mahesh, V and Rao, M V Hanumantha and Ghosh, Shubhadeep (2013) Incidental landing of lesser devil ray Mobula diabolus (Shaw, 1804) at Dummulapeta and Bhairavapalem, Andhra Pradesh. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical & Extension Series (216). pp. 17-18.