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Status of the pearl oyster population in the Gulf of Mannar
K Alagarswami, A Chellam, A C C Victor, Subramanian Dharmaraj, T S Velayudhan
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Abstract
The five volumes of Herdman (1903-1906) observation \non the "Report to the Government of Ceylon \nthe pearl oyster fisheries of the Gulf of \nMannar" and the treatise of Hornell (1922) \non "The Indian pearl fisheries of the Gulf of \nMannar and Palk Bay" are the works of \nscientists who had mastery over the subject \nof pearl fisheries of the Gulf of Mannar on \nboth the Indian and Sri Lankan sides. Subsequ \nent to 1922 the only major contributions, 1975. \n aside the routine survey, have been the use \nof dredge for fishing of pearl oysters on the \nSri Lankan side
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