Pelagic fisheries of India - Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

The pelagic fishes live most part of their life in the surface or subsurface waters. This group exhibits rich species diversity and abundance in the Indian EEZ. Though 240 species constitute the pelagic fisheries along the Indian coast, it is only about 60 species belonging to 8 groups support major fisheries (Table1). During the last decade, pelagic finfishes contributed to 46-56% (average: 51%) of the total marine fish production, of which almost 70% was fished from within the 50 m depth zon

Scombroid Fishery of the Indian Ocean - An Overview

In the Indian Ocean, scombroids comprising of tunas, billfishes, seerfishes and mackerels are an invaluable resource and their producer value is estimated to between 2 and 3 billion US dollars annually, besides the vast socio-economic benefits to the fishing nations. Of the three major groups of species, tunas account for the largest share of the total catch and also for the largest increase during the past 10 years. Seerfish catches attained record levels in 1998 while billfish catches have more than doubled since 1992 although the relative contribution of the group is still small. With the introduction of technologically advanced fishing fleets and techniques in the Indian Ocean, the intensity of exploitation of scombroids, especially tunas and billfishes have reached a new peak. An overview of the present status of scombroid fishery of the Indian Ocean is presented below

TALENT ACQUISITION AS A STRATEGIC TOOL OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

The business performance has been closely tied with the talent management strategies in the hyper-competitive and increasingly complex global economy in order to attain growth and sustain. The company which excelled in talent acquisition experienced which leads to leap up the business performance. Regardless of the size and nature of the business, all the organizations face war for talent. Hence, acquisition of right talent and making a talent pool can be the biggest challenge. This study moves forward theory of talent acquisition strategies (TAS) through the practical implication of private sector organizations in Sri Lanka. The talent acquisition strategies comprise with talent mapping (TM), talent identification (TI), talent onboarding (TO). The foremost intention of this study is to scrutinize the effect of talent acquisition strategies on business performance. The questionnaire survey was conducted for 195 HR professionals in the public sector organizations in Sri Lanka.  In order to analyze data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was employed to test for its normality, and person correlation test was used for measuring the relationship between variables and multiple regression analysis was applied for determining the effect of variables. The results indicate that even though talent acquisition strategies are significant predictors of business performance public sector, contribution of talent acquisition to the business performance is minimal. Internal alignment between talent management strategies and Business Strategy are suggested for future research as crucial to trump organizational performance

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Comparison of the growth of oil sardine Sardinella longiceps Val., off Vishakhapatnam and Malabar coasts

The growth of oil sardine, Sardinella longiceps off Visakhapatnam and Malabar coast was compared. Hydrological and productivity regimes are found to influence the growth pattern of oil sardine. Growth pattern of oil sardine exhibited seasonality, which was more pronounced along the Malabar coast than off Visakhapatnam

Field identification of scombroids from Indian seas

Scombroids are a diverse group of pelagic fishes ranging in size from about 30 cm to over 3 m in length. Most of them, especially the tunas and billfishes perform considerable and sometimes even transoceanic migrations. Being highly valued table fishes, they are of significant importance both as a commercial and recreational fisher

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Fishery and biology of tunas in the Indian seas

Tunas and tuna-like fishes belong to 6 genera, viz., Thunnus, Katsuwonus, Euthynnus, Auxis (tribe Thunnini) and Sarda (bonitos) and Gymnosarda (tribe Sardini) of the family Scombridae. Tunas are among the largest, most specialized and commercially important of all fishes (Collette and Nauen, 1983). They are found in temperate and tropical oceans around the world and account for a major proportion of the world fishery products. Tunas are unique among fishes because they possess body temperature several degrees higher than the ambient waters and have high metabolic rates that enable them to exhibit extraordinary growth patterns. They have streamlined bodies and vary extensively in size, color and fin length. They are fast swimmers capable of traveling more than 48 km/h (Collette and Nauen, 1983), migratory and have few predators. They are the second most important item, next only to shrimps, in the world seafood trade and therefore form specifically targeted fisheries globally by nations such as France, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and USA. In the Indian Ocean which contributes 19% of the world tuna catch, tuna fishing and fisheries have emerged as focal points to address issues of sustainable development and management of fishery resources, especially in the context of EEZ regulations, UNCLOS and other international conventions

Sustainable marine fisheries development

Fisheries development concerns the processes leading to the progress in harvesting, processing, marketing and utilizing the yields from the natural resources of aquatic animals and plants for the benefit of the people and the country. Fishing has been one of the oldest methods of gathering food adopted by people living close to seas / rivers and was a small scale, sustenance level community based activity. Fisheries development has progressed considerably since World War II and the estimates of world marine capture fisheries production was 84.2 5 million metric tons in the year 2005 (FAO, 2006). While in the past, fisheries resources far exceeded the human capacity to exploit them, since the last two decades, technological changes have paved the way for a situation where increasing annual catches of fish is no longer a simple matter of increasing fishing effort. The rate of increase in fish production is increasingly becoming difficult to maintain as a consequence of many of the stocks having reached or even exceeded their limits of sustainable exploitation. Fish is a significant contributor to the livelihood, nutritional, trade and economic security of countries and hence concerns are being voiced about the rational development and management of fisheries where new terminologies like “sustainable development” and “responsible fishing” are currently being widely used