Design and Technical Specifications of Seer Fish Gillnets of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
Design and Technical Specifications of Seer Fish Gillnets of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
Date
2013
Authors
Kazi, T. G.
Mohite, A. S.
Jadhav, R. R.
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Publisher
Society of Fisheries Technologists (India)Cochin
Abstract
Gillnet is commonly used by the fishermen of
Ratnagiri for the capture of seer fish. The present
study deals with design, technical specifications and
operation of seer fish gillnets (towerchi rapan)
operated off Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. The nets were
made of webbings of polyamide multifilament of
210d×2×3 to 210d×12×3 having mesh sizes ranging
from 70 to 150 mm. Each fleet of net comprised of
webbings of different mesh sizes in combination to
capture different size groups of fishes, which is not
a good practice. The nets were without foot ropes
and were operated as surface drift during September
to December and column drift during October
to May. The seer fish gillnet fishing sector of
Ratnagiri comes under the category of ‘small scale
drift net fisheries’ as fleet length of majority of the
units was below 2500 m.
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Keywords
Design, seer fish, gillnet, polyamide multifilament
Citation
Fishery Techn 49(1): 28-31