Seasonal abundance of jelly fish in the east coast is one of the valuable raw materials for the food processing and exports industries. The vast resources of the same have been properly utilized by the east coast fishermen and export enterprises in the recent years

Chidambaram, L

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Whale shark Rhineodon typus landed at Pamban-Therkuvadi Mar. Fish. Infor. Serv., T &E Ser., No. 174, 2002 depth of 14 to 16 metres . As there was no demand for its flesh the whale shark was sold for Rs .700/ -for oil extraction. Another male whale sha rk measur ing 1068 cm in total length and weighing around 3 tonnes was caugh t in the pa i r trawl ne t a t P a m b a n Therkuvadi, Gulf of Mannar on 16-01-2002 from 18 m depth. It was sold for R s . l 2 0 0 / - for oil ex-traction. The morphometr ic measurement s of the whale sha rks are given in Table 1. Reported by: C. Kasinathan, K. Muniyandi, M. Bose and A. Gandhi, R.C. of CMFRI, Mandapam camp 1016 A note on jelly fish collection - An alternate source of income to the east coast fishermen Seasonal abundance of jelly fish in the east coast is one of the valuable raw materials for the food processing and exports industr ies . The vast resources of the same have been properly uti-lized by the east coast fishermen and export en-terprises in the recent years . By virtue of its ex-port potential fishermen of this locality give pri-Processing of jelly fish ority to collect jelly fishes t h a n regular fishing activities. It provides income and additional em-ployment opportunit ies to the fishermen by way of cleaning and processing. The processing in-dustr ies are functioning in the fishing villages such as N a d u k u p p a m , A n i c h a n k u p p a m , Mu-dal iarkuppam, Chett inagar. Anumandaikuppam, Processed jelly fish Name of the fishing village Allotted Quantity (in numbers) rate/jelly fish Man power/ unit Nadukuppam Anichankuppam Mudaliarkuppam Chet t inagar Koniutt ichavadikuppam Eggiikuppam 1200 1600 1600 1050 840 730 Rs.0.80 (only umbrella) Rs.1.10 Rs.1.05 Rs.1.10 Rs.1.10 Rs.1.10 5 5 4 4 5 13 Mar. Fish. Infor. Serv., T& E Ser., No. 174, 2002 Komuttichavadikuppam, Pudurkuppam, Eggikup-pam since September 2 0 0 1 . Depending upon the processing capacity of the industry and availability of labour, the panchayat authorit ies will make decisions to allocate their village's fishing unit a s given above in order to collect the maximum number of jelly fish. After deduct ing the fuel charges and the 3 % village share, the net income was equally divided among the craft owners and labourers in 1:1 ratio. Prepared by: L. Chidambaram, Field Centre of CMFRI, Pondicherry 1017 Instances of dead olive ridley turtles washed ashore along Palasa, North Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh Large, dead olive ridley turt les each weighing about 35.50 kg with carapace length of 60-72 cm were found washed ashore along Palasa, North Srikakulam on 2.2.2002 and 3.2.2002. The ap-proximate n u m b e r dead turt les found at different centres are as follows. Similarly, on enquiiy it was informed that, 35 to 65 dead olive ridley turtles were also washed ashore along Dokalapadu to Donkuru in all land-ing centres dur ing the s ame period. T h u s the n u m b e r of dead turtles washed ashore appears to be high. They were already in putrefied condition. On the basis of enquiry it h a s been inferred tha t the dead turt les were coming from Gopal-apur-Pur i area. It was also unders tood that they Landing centre No. Althada Kothapeta Kambalarayudupeta Hukumpe ta Manchine lape ta Nuwallarevu Chinna Kothuru of dead turt les recorded 15 23 45 68 72 125 38 were mainly caught entangled in a recently in-t roduced Tekuvala (Bottom set gill net) along Go-palapur-Pur i area. Reported by: V. Achuta Rao, Regional Centre of CMFRI, Visakhapatnam 1018 On a female devil ray Manta bitostris (Walbuam) entangled in bottom set gill net at Kelwa-Dandupada, Maharashtra On 24-09-02 one female giant devil ray Manta birostris (locally called "Ulack") was entangled in a bottom set gill net at about 16.00 hrs from a depth of 45-50m, off Kelwa-Dandarpada, Mahar-ash t ra . The ray m e a s u r e d 594cm ac ross the disc, weighed about 1500 kg and was auctioned for Rs .6000 / - . The specimen was a pregnant female with one male embryo weighing abou t 5 kg. The o t h e r m o r p h o l o g i c a l c h a r a c t e r s w e r e a s follows. Disc width Disc length Width of mou th Weight Sex Tail length Length of cepha ic horn 594 cm 417 cm 106 cm 1500 kg Female 92 cm 60 cm Rear view of Manta birosstris (Walbuam) Reported by: Umesh H. Ra.ne, Field Centre of CMFRI, Dahanu 14 

A note on jelly fish collection - An alternate source of income

to the east coast fishermen

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A note on jelly fish collection - An alternate source of income to the east coast fishermen

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