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Observations on the fishing potentiality of the shelf and slope waters along the s. w. coast of India based on the fishing results of IFP vessels
Availability of resources is perhaps the most
important factor which determines the success
of any Industry. In the case of fishing
industry. the availability of fishable concentration
of fishes and other marine life assumes
great significance since the success of the fishing
operation is entirely dependant on the
availability of resources which can be effectively
exploited with the fishing equipment
carried on board
Fishable concentrations of fishes and crustaceans in the offshore and deep sea areas of the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone based on observations made onboard FORV Sagar Sampada
Bottom trawling data of FORV Sagar Sampada pertaining to a total of 350 fishing hauls with a duration of 330 effective
trawling hours for depths beyond 40 m was utilized in the present study. Abundance of selected fishery resources such
as threadfin bream, bull's eye, drift fish, lizard fish, ribbon fish, cat fish, barracudas, mackerel, deep sea prawns and deep
sea lobster in the offshore and deep sea waters of the Indian EEZ in space and time is indicated
Study on the induced maturation of the Indian pearl oyster Pinctada fucata (Gould) at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India
In the induced maturation experiments of the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata (Gould), 7.5 ┬▒ 3.54%, 6.67% and 15 ┬▒ 7.07% fully mature pearl oysters were obtained on day 43, 42 and 36 in oysters fed with mixed algae (T-1), mixed algae and raw corn flour (T-2), mixed algae and raw rice flour (T-3), respectively under laboratory conditions. Among the treatments, it was observed that the (T-3) mixed algae with raw rice flour gave the best results with pearl oysters maturing 62.5 ┬▒ 7.08% under laboratory conditions on day 29 itself. Whereas, 35 % ┬▒ 7.07 % of fully mature pearl oysters were obtained on the 15th day and 36th day from the farm and laboratory, respectively and none in the non fed. Of the matured animals, 43.33% of stage III animals fed on mixed algae changed to stage IV within 19 days, while gonad of 40 ┬▒ 14.14% of pearl oysters without feeding
changed to stage IV within 26 days under laboratory conditions. Maturity of 53.12 ┬▒ 11.97% pearl oysters did not change when maintained in the farm conditions within 24 days
Growth and maturity of Indian oil sardine Sardinella longiceps (Valenciennes, 1847) along southwest coast of India
Growth studies are important to determine the total recruitment of fish
with respect to time while information on age and length at first maturity
are essential to assess the spawning stock. The present communication
deals with growth, maturity and mortality parameters of Indian oil
sardine Sardinella longiceps from southwest coast of India. Length at
first maturity of oil sardine was found to be 15.7 and 15.2 cm for male
and female, respectively. Comparison of length at first maturity of oil
sardine with earlier studies showed only minor variations. The growth
parameters LтИЮ, K, and age at zero length (t0) were calculated as 19.8 cm,
1.14 yr-1 and -0.0464 respectively. From the VBG equation, the length
attained at the end of I, II and III year is estimated as 13.79, 17.87 and
18.9 cm respectively. Two peaks of recruitment to the fishery were
observed. The values of total mortality (Z), natural mortality (M) and
fishing mortality (F) estimated are 4.33, 2.7 and 1.6 respectively. The
exploitation rate was found to be 0.37
InterProScan: protein domains identifier
InterProScan [E. M. Zdobnov and R. Apweiler (2001) Bioinformatics, 17, 847тАУ848] is a tool that combines different protein signature recognition methods from the InterPro [N. J. Mulder, R. Apweiler, T. K. Attwood, A. Bairoch, A. Bateman, D. Binns, P. Bradley, P. Bork, P. Bucher, L. Cerutti et al. (2005) Nucleic Acids Res., 33, D201тАУD205] consortium member databases into one resource. At the time of writing there are 10 distinct publicly available databases in the application. Protein as well as DNA sequences can be analysed. A web-based version is accessible for academic and commercial organizations from the EBI (). In addition, a standalone Perl version and a SOAP Web Service [J. Snell, D. Tidwell and P. Kulchenko (2001) Programming Web Services with SOAP, 1st edn. O'Reilly Publishers, Sebastopol, CA, ] are also available to the users. Various output formats are supported and include text tables, XML documents, as well as various graphs to help interpret the results
Marine Ornamental Fishes
Ornamental fishes are fascinating for their brilliant
and attractive colouration/pattern, tiny size
and their ability to adapt in confined aquarium
tanks. These fishes are a fancy for the people
all over the world and aquarium fish keeping
has been developed as a hobby by many. The
world ornamental fish industry has been growing
rapidly over the years. The total turnover,
has been estimated over 5 billion US $, of which
India's contribution is less than 1%
Penaeus semisulcatus: A potential species for commercial culture along Tamilnadu coast
Major portion of the marine export products
By value wise, is being contributed by shrimps.
Three fourth of exported shrimps is from sea and
The rest from culture. Since the exploitation of
Shrimps has already reached optimum level in
Indian coastal waters, one alternative is to
Increase shrimp entering shrimp culture for
Quick and high returns. Farming technology for
P.monodonand P.indicus has been considerably developed than
that for the other species
of Indiancoast. Prime species that are cultured
successfullyat present in India are P.monodon .
andP.indicus in the order of trade preference.
But in Japanese market P.semisulcatus, a
Striped shrimp is fetching higher price than
P.indicus. Information on grow-out practices of
P.semisulcatusis scanty. Experimental-scale
cuRurehas been attempted in Kuwait, Israel,
Bahrain,Taiwan, and Malaysia
Lobsters
Among marine crustaceans, lobsters are the most highly priced
ones and of significant commercial interest in many countries. Due to their
increasing demand as a favourite of epicurean gourmets, lobsters have
captured excellent markets in developed countries. Lobster fishing,
therefore, is practised on intensive scale throughout the world and a stage
has com e that most of the traditional lobster stocks are under heavy
exploitation now. According to World Fishery Statistics, the annual lobster
production of the world during 1981 - 1990 period ranged from 1.8 lakh
tonnes in 1982 to 2.3 lakh tonnes in 1989, thereby showing an increase of
only 28% over the years. The average annual production of about 2.1 lakh
tonnes of lobsters, which included 1.9 lakh tonnes of spiny lobsters and
allied species (92%) and 0.2 lakh tonnes of squat lobsters (8 %), form ed 6 %
of the world crustacean landings from the marine sector. The contribution
of the form er group from Indian Ocean region for the same period was
about 60,000 tonnes on an average of which over 70% was recorded in the
Western Indian Ocean mainly from the coasts of South Africa, Om an and
Republic of Yemen. India landed an average of about 24,000 tonnes, of
which nearly 90% came from the west coast
Cytokine-related genes identified from the RIKEN full-length mouse cDNA data set
To identify novel cytokine-related genes, we searched the set of 60,770 annotated RIKEN mouse cDNA clones (FANTOM2 clones), using keywords such as cytokine itself or cytokine names (such as interferon, interleukin, epidermal growth factor, fibroblast growth factor, and transforming growth factor). This search produced 108 known cytokines and cytokine-related products such as cytokine receptors, cytokine-associated genes, or their products (enhancers, accessory proteins, cytokine-induced genes). We found 15 clusters of FANTOM2 clones that are candidates for novel cytokine-related genes. These encoded products with strong sequence similarity to guanylate-binding protein (GBP-5), interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase 2 (IRAK-2), interleukin 20 receptor alpha isoform 3, a member of the interferon-inducible proteins of the Ifi 200 cluster, four members of the membrane-associated family 1-8 of interferon-inducible proteins, one p27-like protein, and a hypothetical protein containing a Toll/Interleukin receptor domain. All four clones representing novel candidates of gene products from the family contain a novel highly conserved cross-species domain. Clones similar to growth factor-related products included transforming growth factor beta-inducible early growth response protein 2 (TIEG-2), TGFbeta-induced factor 2, integrin beta-like 1, latent TGF-binding protein 4S, and FGF receptor 4B. We performed a detailed sequence analysis of the candidate novel genes to elucidate their likely functional properties
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