Research and Development efforts on marine
fisheries of the country have contributed to a rapid
growth of literature. However, no attempts have so
far been made to develop bibliographies on commercially
important species/groups of marine fishes of India,
so that the large community of research workers and
fishery managers could be benefited. Therefore, to
begin with, the Central Marine Fisheries Research
Institute has taken up a programme of compilation
of 'Annotated Bibliographies' on major commercially
important fisheries like those of prawns, oil sardine,
mackerel, silver-bellies, ribbon-fishes and Bombay-duck
