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Fishery and biological traits of obtuse barracuda Sphyraena obtusata (Cuvier, 1829) off south-west coast of India

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http://doi.org/10.22438/jeb/42/1/MRN-1249
 
Title Fishery and biological traits of obtuse barracuda
Sphyraena obtusata (Cuvier, 1829) off south-west
coast of India
 
Creator Rajesh, K M
Rohit, Prathibha
Abdussamad, E M
 
Subject Fish and Fisheries
Pelagic Fisheries
 
Description Fishes belonging to family Sphyraenidae consists of
voracious predators, are economically important and widely
distributed in all equatorial, tropical and warm temperate seas
(Allam et al., 2004; Akadje et al., 2013). These fishes are mostly
pelagic, live solitary or in schools and are capable of adaptation to
diverse ecological condition (Whitehead et al., 1986). Family
Sphyraenidae comonly known as barracudas include only one
genus, Sphyraena and with 27 valid species globally (Froese and
Pauly, 2019). Of these, only 9 species have been confirmed in
India (Eschmeyer and Fong, 2017). The obtuse barracuda is a
small and commercially important species of barracuda reported
along the Indian coast, and is usually found in bays, estuaries
(Senou, 2001), rocky areas and sea grass beds (May and
Maxwell, 1986). These fishes are exploited by various fishing
gears and mainly caught in trawlnets, gillnets and outboard
ringseines (Senou, 2001; Najmudeen et al., 2015).
 
Date 2021
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14823/1/Journal%20of%20Environmental%20Biology_2021_K%20M%20Rajesh.pdf
Rajesh, K M and Rohit, Prathibha and Abdussamad, E M (2021) Fishery and biological traits of obtuse barracuda Sphyraena obtusata (Cuvier, 1829) off south-west coast of India. Journal of Environmental Biology, 42. pp. 112-117.