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Seasonal ginger prawn fishery in Gulf of Kutch

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Title Seasonal ginger
prawn fishery in
Gulf of Kutch
 
Creator CMFRI, Veraval
 
Subject Crustacean Fisheries
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description Fishing for the ginger prawn (Metapenaeus
kutchensis George, George and Rao,
1963), a seasonal fishery, started towards the
end of July 2010 in various places such as
Madherki, Tikker and Chera of Soorajbari
district adjacent to the Little Rann of Kutch in
the Gulf of Kutch region of Gujarat.A team
of scientists and technical staff of the center
made periodic visits to these centers during
fishing season and collected hydrographic and
fishery data. The fishing season starts towards
the end of July every year when the creeks
and adjoining areas of the Little Rann of
Kutch gets flooded by the south-west
monsoon rains and lasts until these places
are dried up in October.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16188/1/CMFRI_NL_2010_127_10_2.pdf
CMFRI, Veraval (2010) Seasonal ginger prawn fishery in Gulf of Kutch. CMFRI Newsletter Cadalmin (127). p. 10.