On 29.10.05, an unprecedented twelve tons
of common dolphinfish, Coryphaena
hippurus was landed at Sassoon Dock by
gill netters. The catch was made by 22 gill
netters on a four day voyage, operating
surface drift nets of mesh 80-120 rnrn upto
40 m depth of Murud, about 100 km south
of Mumabi. The fish is sexually dimorphic
with mature males having a pronounced bony
crest in the frontal portion of the head
