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Decadal status of Large Pelagic fishery in West Bengal

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Title Decadal status of Large Pelagic fishery in West
Bengal
 
Creator Ghosh, Shubhadeep
Manas, H M
Roul, Subal Kumar
Dash, Gyanaranjan
Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen
Rohit, Prathibha
Mini, K G
Abdussamad, E M
 
Subject Fish landing
Pelagic Fisheries
 
Description The marine landings of the state have fluctuated widely over the years with the maximum of 4 lakh tonnes
recorded in 2011. Pelagics dominate the marine fishery and contribute around two-third of the marine
landings. Major large pelagic resources landed were seerfishes, queenfishes, tunas and cobia. Sporadic landings
of barracudas, billfishes and dolphinfish were observed in certain years. Average annual landings of large
pelagics during 2010 – 2019 were 6,131 t forming 2.65% of the total state landings. More than half of the
landings were contributed by seerfishes, followed by queenfishes. Major gears contributing to the landings
were gillnets (60%) and trawl nets (38%). Scomberomorus guttatus formed 95% of the seerfish landings and
were landed by both trawl nets and gill nets, whereas Scomberomorus commerson landed only by gillnets.
Among queenfishes landed by trawl nets and gill nets, Scomberoides lysan dominated followed by S.tala
and S.commersonianus
 
Publisher ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2020
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14737/1/MFIS_245_Shubhadeep%20Ghosh_2020.pdf
Ghosh, Shubhadeep and Manas, H M and Roul, Subal Kumar and Dash, Gyanaranjan and Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen and Rohit, Prathibha and Mini, K G and Abdussamad, E M (2020) Decadal status of Large Pelagic fishery in West Bengal. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 245. pp. 25-28. ISSN ISSN 0254-380X