Status of the major lobster fisheries in India
| Autor: | V D Deshmukh, Joe K Kizhakudan, E Radhakrishnan, M. Rajamani, R. Thangaraja, Mary K Manisseri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 39:723-732 |
| ISSN: | 1175-8805 0028-8330 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00288330.2005.9517348 |
| Popis: | Commercial exploitation of lobsters from the Indian seas began in the 1950s. Annual landings have been declining from a peak of 4075 t in 1985 to 1364 t in 2002. Major fisheries were located on the north‐west, south‐west, and south‐east coasts. Among the 12 species recorded, only four species of spiny lobsters (three littoral and one deep sea) and one species of slipper lobster are commercially important. At Kayalpattinam and Tharuvaikulam, on the south‐east coast, lobster landings sharply declined for the gill‐net fishery. Of the two species that contributed to the fishery, Panulirus ornatus and Panulirus homarus, the latter has been more affected owing to high vulnerability to fishing activities. Catch composition analysis of the trammel‐net fishery showed that 35% of the landings consisted of P. homarus in the size range of 23–50 mm carapace length. On the north‐west coast, the spiny lobster Panulirus polyphagus and the slipper lobster Thenus orientalis are incidentally caught in trawl nets. H... |
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