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Heavy landings of the silky shark and the blotched fantail ray at Cochin

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Title Heavy landings of the silky shark and
the blotched fantail ray at Cochin
 
Creator Sobhana, K S
Mani, P T
Seetha, P K
 
Subject Shark fisheries
Ray fisheries
Conservation
 
Description During October 2010 - March 2011
there were heavy landings of the silky
shark Carcharhinus falciformis ranging in
TL from 90 – 298 cm. in mechanized
Hook & Line catches at Cochin Fisheries
Harbour (CFH). During January 2011
about 70% of the total shark landing at
CFH was contributed by this species. The
species is fished mainly for its meat, oil
and fins as in the case of other sharks. Carcharhinus falciformis landed
at Cochin Fisheries Harbour
Silky sharks are vulnerable to
ovefishing because of its long
gestation period, low number
of offsprings and slow growth
rate and is listed as “near
threatened” in the IUCN Red
List of Threatened species.
Heavy landing of the
bloched fantail ray Taeniura
Taeniura meyeni landed at Cochin Fisheries Harbour
meyeni was also
observed during
October 2010 to
March 2011 at Cochin
Fisheries Harbour.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2011
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16218/1/CMFRI_NL_2011_128_8_1.pdf
Sobhana, K S and Mani, P T and Seetha, P K (2011) Heavy landings of the silky shark and the blotched fantail ray at Cochin. CMFRI Newsletter Cadalmin (128). p. 8.