Lobsters of Kerala

Chakraborty, Rekha D (2022) Lobsters of Kerala. In: Bioresources and commercial utilization: trends, market, supplychain, and sustainability. Kerala State Biodiversity Board, Thiruvananthapuram, pp. 233-239. ISBN 978-93-5620-548-8

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Abstract

Lobsters are among the most prized and forms luxury seafood with high nutritive value and of significant commercial interest in many countries having great demand both in national and international markets contributing to the foreign exchange. Because of their high value and esteemed culinary worth, much attention has been paid to lobsters in biological, fisheries, and systematic literature. In Kerala, it forms a small scale fishery and the resource is harvested from shallow waters in general and forms a bycatch of the trawl fishery. Fishermen inhabiting along the coastal belts catch lobsters by region specific methods wz., commercial crafts and gears including traps, non motorized categorty

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