Demersal finfish resources in certain areas of the EEZ of southwest and southeas t coast of India CMFRI Digital Repository

Bensam, P; Bande, V N; Sivakami, S; Nair, K V Somasekharan; Menon, N G; Mathew, Grace; Devadoss, P; Nammalwar, P; Zacharia, P U; Feroz Khan, M; Jayasankar, P; M ohanraj, G; Livingston, P; Gandhi, V; Raju, A; Srinivasarangan, S; Rengaswami, V ; Raje, S G. Bottom trawling data from the cruises of the FORV Sagar Sampada undertaken durin g 1989-91 in the middle and outer shelf waters of the southern EEZ, at 97 statio ns within a depth zone of 30 to 130 m, showed catch rates of 3 to 14000 kg/hr. T he highest rate of 14 t/hr was recorded at lat. 1 lN/75 23.4' E, followed by 5.5t/hr at 854'N N/76 19.6' E off the southwest coast, whereas the abundance was comparativ ely less off the southeast coast. The average catch rate per hour off the southw est was 724 kg and off the southeast it was 405 kg. The important demersal finfi shes available were: threadfin breams (72%), major perches (5%), rays, carangids and goatfish (4% each) off the southwest; and carangids (29%), major perches (2 3%), rays (19%),... Tipo: Conference or Workshop Item Palavras-chave: Finfish; Demersal Fisher ies. Ano: 1996 URL: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5198/1/38.pdf