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The windowpane oyster resources of Kakinada Bay

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Title The windowpane oyster resources of Kakinada Bay
 
Creator Narasimham, K A
 
Subject Edible oyster
 
Description Among the commercially exploited bivalve mollmcs in India
the windowpane oyster Placenta placenta (Uniiaeus) (Talapu gulla
in Telugu) is next in importance to the clams in quantitative abundance.
A major fishery for this species exists in the Kakinada Bay
where the annual production is about 50001. Production is about
1500 t/year of empty shells in the Kndhara Bay in the Gulf of Kutch
and about 350 t/year in Naukim Bay at Goa. In the fishery at
Kakinada Bay about 300 plank-built boats are deployed. This
species occurs in stray numbers at several other centres along the
Indian Coast. Considerable quantities of the shell are also
collected from the subsoil deposits, particularly from the Vembanad
Lake in Kerala State.
 
Publisher CMFRI, Cochin
 
Date 1986
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5236/1/13.pdf
Narasimham, K A (1986) The windowpane oyster resources of Kakinada Bay. R & D Series for Marine Fishery Resources Management, 13. pp. 1-3.