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The Mud Banks of the West Coast of India

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Title The Mud Banks of the West Coast of India
 
Creator Rao, D S
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description The periodic formation of mud banks along the southern section of the West
Coast of India between Cannanore in the north, and Neendakara near Quilon in the south
is a most interesting phenomenon the like of which has not been reported from anywhere
else. This takes place with cyclic regularity in the inshore areas during the South West
Monsoon reducing considerably the wave action in the sea on an otherwise surf-ridden coast.
The areas where such mud banks are formed provide safe anchorage for ships and facilitate
fishing operations also and are therefore welcomed by the coastal people who depend on
the sea for their livelihood. As the richest prawn fishing grounds in the country are
located within the same region, the mud banks are of great interest from the economic as
well as scientific points of view. Not much work appears to have bten done on them since
the extensive observations made in the thirties of this century by late R. C. Bristow, the
architect of Cochin harbour whose reports are still the most important contributions on
the subject.
 
Date 1967
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5572/1/18.pdf
Rao, D S (1967) The Mud Banks of the West Coast of India. In: Souvenir 20th Anniversary Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, 3 February 1967, Mandapam.