Record Details

Unusual landings of the deep-sea lobster, Palinustus waguensis in Sakthikulangara Fisheries Harbour

CMFRI Repository

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14316/
 
Title Unusual landings of the deep-sea lobster, Palinustus waguensis in Sakthikulangara Fisheries Harbour
 
Creator Chakraborty, Rekha D
Maheswarudu, G
Sreesanth, L
Ragesh, N
Aneesa, K A
 
Subject Fish landing
Crustacean Fisheries
Lobsters
 
Description Unusual landing of Deepsea lobster Palinustus waguensis was observed at Sakthikulangara Fisheries Harbour at Kollam on 15.01.2019 along with the catch of deep-sea shrimps. An estimated catch of 100 kg of P.waguensis was landed in multiday shrimp trawls operated at a depth of 200-250 m, during the first two weeks of January 2019. Since the inception of deepsea shrimp landings, this species was observed in stray numbers and this is the first time a landing of this magnitude was observed. The lobster was sold in local market @ 150-200 ₹ per kg for domestic consumers. Distribution of this species is reported in the Indo-west pacific region (India, Thailand, Philippines, Japan) at a depth range of 100 to 180 m. The lobsters randomly sampled ranged from 81 to 154 mm each in total length and having 15.3 to75.7 grams weight
 
Publisher ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2019
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14316/1/MFIS_239_13.pdf
Chakraborty, Rekha D and Maheswarudu, G and Sreesanth, L and Ragesh, N and Aneesa, K A (2019) Unusual landings of the deep-sea lobster, Palinustus waguensis in Sakthikulangara Fisheries Harbour. Marine Fisheries Information Service; Technical and Extension Series (239). p. 31. ISSN 0254-380 X