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Indigenous Estuarine Fishing Gears of West Bengal


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1 W. B. University of Animal and Fishery Science, Mohanpur, Nadia. West Bengal, India
2 Department of Marine Biology, Kamatak University, Dharwar, Kamataka, India
3 Zoological Survey Of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, India
     

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While conducting fishery resource surveys and efficiency studies on estuarine fishing gears of West Bengal during 2002-03 and 2003-04, an attempt was made to inventorise indigenous fishing gears of Hooghly-Matia estuarine ecosystems of West Bengal. This forms the basis of the present communication. In 1906, Sir K. G. Gupta (1908) undertook investigations on the fisheries of the province of Bengal. Since then, several workers have studied the fish and fisheries resources of Hooghly-Matla estuaries (Hora, 1949; Pillay and Ghosh, 1962; Saha, 1970; Mitra et al, 1997; Pramanik and Nandi, 2004). However, very little work is done on fishing gears of this region (Saha, 1970).
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N. A. Talwar
W. B. University of Animal and Fishery Science, Mohanpur, Nadia. West Bengal, India
V. N. Nayak
Department of Marine Biology, Kamatak University, Dharwar, Kamataka, India
N. C. Nandi
Zoological Survey Of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, India

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While conducting fishery resource surveys and efficiency studies on estuarine fishing gears of West Bengal during 2002-03 and 2003-04, an attempt was made to inventorise indigenous fishing gears of Hooghly-Matia estuarine ecosystems of West Bengal. This forms the basis of the present communication. In 1906, Sir K. G. Gupta (1908) undertook investigations on the fisheries of the province of Bengal. Since then, several workers have studied the fish and fisheries resources of Hooghly-Matla estuaries (Hora, 1949; Pillay and Ghosh, 1962; Saha, 1970; Mitra et al, 1997; Pramanik and Nandi, 2004). However, very little work is done on fishing gears of this region (Saha, 1970).