Taxonomy of Family Hemiramphidae

Thomas, Toji and Jacob, Dona and Abdussamad, E M (2022) Taxonomy of Family Hemiramphidae. In: ICAR-CMFRI -Winter School on Recent Development in Taxonomic Techniques of Marine Fishes for Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries Management. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 603-611.

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Abstract

The fisheries sector has been recognized as a powerful income and employment generator, as it stimulates growth of number of subsidiary industries and as a source of high quality and nutritious food. occupies an important place in the socio-economic development of the country. India is very rich in marine natural resources, with a coastline of about 8129 km and 2.02 million sq. km of exclusive economic zone (EEZ).The potential of fish from the coastal waters of India is exploited to the maximum and hence; there is need for finding an alternate resource to increase production. Exploitation of Beloniformes resources is identified as one of the thrust area for increasing fish production and export of Indian marine products.

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