Kachal, a tackle for file-fish (family Balistidae : Pisces)

To suit local exigencies and condition several indigenous types of gear have been developed by fishermen from ancient times which though primitive and crude in appearance are efficient in their own way. One such gear is the Kaehal, used to capture the file-fish (Balistidae) along the south-west coast of India between Muttum and Vizhingam. Since good results are obtained at little cost, the gear is used extensively by fishermen

Pumiliopsis spathepedes sp. nov., a cyclopoid copepod Parasitic on the eye of Sardinella sirm

The female of a new sipecies of copepod parasit;, Pumiliapsis spathepedes is described from the eye of the sardine, Sardinella sirm from Tut'corin, South East Coast of India. It was been compared with the only other known species in this genus namely P. sardinellae. The species can easily be distingu'shed from all the other bomolochids hitherto known by the enormously developed fifth leg

Global vs local cosmic strings from pseudo-anomalous U(1)

We study the structure of cosmic strings produced at the breaking of an anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry present in many superstring compactification models. We show that their coupling with the axion necessary in order to cancel the anomalies does not prevent them from being local, even though their energy per unit length is found to diverge logarithmically. We discuss the formation of such strings and the phenomenological constraints that apply to their parameters.Comment: 6 pages, uses RevTeX, no figur

Peroderma tasselum sp. Nov. (Lernaeoceriformes; Copepoda) parasitic on the fish Stolephorus commersonii Lacepede

The female of a copepod parasite, Peroderma tasselum sp. nov. parasitic on the fish Stolephorus commersonil is described from Tuticorin, southeast coast of India. The species can be distinguished from the only other known species of the genus, P. cylindricum, by the characteristic shape of the trunk

The present status of small scale traditional fishery at Tuticorin

Tuticorin enjoys an imique position along the Gulf of Mannar in the east coast of India in view of the facilities available for the development and exploitation of the marine fisheries of the region. A good flashing harbour affords facilities for smaller trawlers in the mechanised fishing sector. Large industrial fishery trawlers get facilities in the major harbour. There is a well established traditional system of craft and gears suited for the local conditions. This account is a positive attempt to highlight the changing pattern of the traditional fishery over the last few years and gives a comprehensive coverage of the gear-wise, specieswise and season-wise fish landings by the small scale traditional sector from 1979 to 1985 based on regular sampling of the commercial catch at Tuticorin fish landing centres

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Heavy landing of brown pomfret at Tuticorin

From December 1992 to February 1993 bumper catch of brown pomfret Stromateus niger was recorded at Harbour Point landing centre which is a traditional site for shore seine operations at Tuticorin. Some enterprising shore seine fishermen after seeing schools of brown pomfret moving near the Tuticorin harbour anchorage used their encircling net to catch the