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Record-sized mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta caught from Karwar waters on the west coast of India

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Title Record-sized mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta caught from Karwar waters on the west coast of India
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Creator Kakati,V S
Gowda,N Chennappa
 
Subject Mackerel
Rastrelliger kanagurta
Karwar waters
West coast of India
 
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The largest mackerel ever caught from Karvar waters or for that matter the largest mackerel so far caught from the Indian waters measured 421 mm in total length and weighed
859 g in fresh condition. This female specimen was caught in purse seine from a depth of 70 meters off Karwar (west
of the light house) on 19th August 1999. Two days earlier, on 17th August 1999, another comparatively smaller specimen, measuring347mm in total length and weighing 524 g. was landed by another purseiner. Thus the present specimen has broken all the earlier records (Table 1) in total length and weight. The fully grown female specimens had turgid ovaries. The well developed ovaries with fully
packed ova indicate that even at such size mackeml spawns in. the nature. Every year at the begining of the "mackerel season" it is customary to observe larger adults in the catches
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Date 2021-08-23T09:40:53Z
2021-08-23T09:40:53Z
1999
 
Type Article
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/59364
 
Language English
 
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Publisher MBAI