Catfish fishery by dolnetters along the Saurashtra coast

摘要

The catch and effort data collected on the Dolnctters based at Nawabunder, Rajpara and Jaffarabad landing centres formed the basis of the study. The data on size distribution of A. Dussumieri was collected from Nawabandar. Jaffarabad is one of the major landing centersudwith 270-285 dolnet units under operation, Nawabunder is the second largest dolnet landing centre, with 250 dolnetters and 40-50 gill netters.