Observations on the prawn fishery of Maharashtra coast

Kunju, M Mydeen (1967) Observations on the prawn fishery of Maharashtra coast. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea, Part 4, MBAI, 12-16 January 1965, Ernakulam.

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Abstract

About 80% of the total prawn production of the country comes from the Ratnagiri-Broach region, which practically makes up the entire, output of the Maharashtra coast. Based on observations carried out from October 1959 to December 1963 from three representative sampling centres, viz., Arnala, Versova and Sassoon Dock, the magnitude of the fishery, species and size composition, and relative abundance of the various species are given in the paper. Unlike any other part of the country the prawn fishery of Maharashtra is supported by a number of species occurring throughout the year, of which at least ten arc of commercial value, being caught in large quantities. More than half the total catch is madcj up of small shrimps such as Pataemon tenuipes, Hippolysmata ensirostris and Aceies indicus and the larger prawns, viz., Meiapenaeus affinis and Parapenaeopsis spp. have only a limited fishery. Solenocera indicus, Hippolysmata ensirostris and Aiypopenaeus compressipes are landed in marketable quantities only along this coast.

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