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RS/L/TT/006: Ceylon's tuna longline fishing effort and catch distribution in the Indian Ocean 1960-1970

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RS/L/TT/006: Ceylon's tuna longline fishing effort and catch distribution in ...
Abstract

In 1967, The Ceylon Fisheries Corporation , a Givernment sponsored organiztion, commenced longlinning for oceanic tuna in the Indian Ocean with two vessel (315Gr. T.Class). The vessels have restricted the operational range to the equatorial belt and hence the effort has been directed chiefly on the yellow fin and big eye tunas. At the commencement the standard five hooks units were utilized but these were modified into the six-hooks units and three hundred to three hundred and fifty baske...

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environmental resources, protection and conservation. Examples: environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape
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Sri Lanka
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English
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Sivasubramanium, 1971. Ceylon's tuna longline fishing effort and catch distribution in the Indian Ocean 1960-1970, Bull.Fish.Res.Stn., Ceylon, 22, P 39-45

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