Swarms of Acetes are known to occur in
the inshore waters and ascend up the estuaries
in this region during this time of the
year. The senior author found Acetes to be
an important item of food of other fishes also
like Lactarius lactarius and Trichiurus lepturus
at the same time in tms area. Occurrence
of immature individuals of L. lactarius (35
to 112 mm total length) in large numbers in
the inshore waters off Mangalor
