The fishery for the Indian oil sardine Sardinella longiceps is important along the west coast of India. Its occurrence along the east coast is only sporadic and infrequent. Every year a few tonnes of oil sardines used to be landed at Tuticorin. But there was no landing of oil sardines during 1992 - 1994

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ISSN 0;'f,4-3e0 X r ^ S ^ ^ VEtOSOF ISLODIOUSSEDVICEI \ TOTHt / surdEniRCEai MARINE FISHERIES INFORMATION SERVICE AUGUST. ;>EPTEPBi:-!R 199? . t TT^ TECHNICAL AND »l<=ic41 EXTENSION SERIES % ^ ^ t ^ ^FT^^ xnir^=JT^ft CENTRAL MARINE FISHERIES 3T^5FtsTFT ^FrF«rr=T RESEARCH INSTITUTE " ^ F T , ^TTTTT C O C H I N , INDIA INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH On the oil sardine landings along the Tuticorin coast during 1996" The fishery for the Indian oil s a rd ine Sardinella longiceps is impor tan t along the west coast of India. Its occurrence along the eas t coast is only sporadic and infrequent. However, it formed a sizeable fishery (4,561 tonnes) in Mandapam area in the year 1992 (Mar. Fish Injor. Serv., T&E Ser., Room No. 117). Every year a few tonnes of oil sardines used to be landed at Tuticorin. But the re was no landing of oil sardines dur ing 1992 - 1994. In 1995, they reappeared and 77 tonnes were landed (Mar. Pish Inter. Serv., T&E Ser. Room No. 130). During December 1996 118 tonnes TABLE 1 Estimatedjishing effort (no. of units) and catch (kg) oj oil sardine at Tuticorin during 1996 Fig. 1. Oil sandines being removed from the net after landing. of oil sardines were landed (Table 1) being caught in the sardine gill net. The increase In the landing of oil sardine was by 30% over the previous year. Months January February March April May June July August September October November December Total Catch Nil ---------1,17,415 1,17,415 Units 2,832 2,929 2,288 4,128 1,642 3,263 2,188 3,274 3,013 2,662 3,572 1,644 33,435 Total catch -----------1,17,415 1,17,415 The size range of the oil sa rd ines was 120-185 m m with dominant mode, a t 170 -175 m m . The min imum weight of a specimen was 15 g and the m a x i m u m 45 g. Females dominated the ca tches (49.7%) while the males fo rmed26 .5%and the lnde te rmina t e s , 23.8%. Regarding the sexual maturi ty, 54 .5% of them were in the resting stages, 8.4% in the III and IV s tages of matur i ty and 13.3% in the immatu re stage. Almost all the catch was t ranspor ted to Kerala Sta te for bet ter pr ices. The oil sardine was sold locally a t the rate of rupees 3 to 5 per kg. I a m grateful to Mr. A. Bast ian Fernando, Technical Officer for going th rough the manusc r ip t and for offering valuable suggest ions for improvement . * Reported by G. Arumugam, Tuticorin Research Centre of CMFRI, Tuticorin - 628 001, India. 15 

On the oil sardine landings along the Tuticorin coast during 1996

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On the oil sardine landings along the Tuticorin coast during 1996

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