George, Grinson and Bharti, Vivekanand and Shah, Phiros and Shafeeque, Muhammed and Anand, A (2017) Identifying mesoscale eddies- Relevance to mud banks and fishery. In: Winter School on Structure and Function of the Marine Ecosystem : Fisheries, 1-21 December 2017, Kochi.
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Abstract
The most popular fishing area during mud bank formation in Kerala is off Punnapra coast in Alapuzha district. This place is equipped with unique crafts such as one-man operated expanded polystyrene thermocol made gill netters, and several other traditional crafts. The fishermen community along this coast is vigilant against any mechanized fishing during mud bank period which falls in the southwest monsoon months when there is a ban on mechanized crafts. There are comparable datasets, from mud bank vis-à-vis non mud bank in this region, which indicate that, the catch per unit effort (CPUE) do not vary significantly. Fishing in Thrissur and Malappuram districts are not restricted by the formation of mud banks. In these districts modified outboard crafts such as pair trawlers operating double net and the high horse power of the out board engines are generally on a look out for nonmud bank resources also. In Malappuram district, the occurrence of the mud bank fishery is for limited days and generally less reported. Therefore, the analysis of data sets indicated better production and CPUE from non-mud banks in Malappuram. In general we can say that there is no significant increase in abundance of fishes reported from the mud bank regions. But the calm waters generated at certain pockets of the otherwise disturbed coastal waters act as areas for seasonal landings of fish.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | Marine Environment > Climate change Marine Ecosystems |
| Divisions: | CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Fishery Resources Assessment Division |
| Depositing User: | Arun Surendran |
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2018 10:29 |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2018 10:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/12784 |
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