2020•Unpublished venueRequires access
Decadal status of Large Pelagic fishery in WestBengal
Shubhadeep Ghosh, Hoshalli Munivenkatappa Manas, Subal Kumar Roul, Gyanaranjan Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen Dash, Prathibha Rohit, K G Mini, E M Abdussamad
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Abstract
The marine landings of the state have fluctuated widely over the years with the maximum of 4 lakh tonnes
recorded in 2011. Pelagics dominate the marine fishery and contribute around two-third of the marine
landings. Major large pelagic resources landed were seerfishes, queenfishes, tunas and cobia. Sporadic landings
of barracudas, billfishes and dolphinfish were observed in certain years. Average annual landings of large
pelagics during 2010 – 2019 were 6,131 t forming 2.65% of the total state landings. More than half of the
landings were contributed by seerfishes, followed by queenfishes. Major gears contributing to the landings
were gillnets (60%) and trawl nets (38%). Scomberomorus guttatus formed 95% of the seerfish landings and
were landed by both trawl nets and gill nets, whereas Scomberomorus commerson landed only by gillnets.
Among queenfishes landed by trawl nets and gill nets, Scomberoides lysan dominated followed by S.tala
and S.commersonianus