MEBIN- Title
- Present status of the commercial sea cucumber fishery in the coastal waters ...
- Abstract
The sea cucumber fishery has been providing an important means of livelihood to the coastal fishing communities in Sri Lanka for centuries. Stock status, level of exploitation and mortality parameters of eleven commercial sea cucumber species were studied off the north-west and the east coasts of Sri Lanka using data collected from an underwater visual census and fishery-dependent surveys carried out in 2008 and 2009. The total abundance of sea cucumbers was higher in the north-west than t...
- Publication Date
- July 6, 2017, 4:29 a.m.
- Keywords
- Holothuria sp.) , Acaudina molpadioides , Holothuria edulis , Bohadschia atra , Actinopyga mauritiana , Thelenota anax , Kalpitiya , Thelenota ananas , Actinopyga miliaris , Sea cucumber , Stichopus chloronotus , Actinopyga echinites , Holothuria fuscogilva , Holothuria atra , Bohadschia argus , Holothuria leucospilota , Holothuria spinifera , Batticaloa , Stichopus horrens , Bohadschia vitiensis , Bohadschia sp. , Bohadschia marmorata , Mannar , Holothuria hilla , Holothuria lesson , Bohadschia graeffei , Bohadschia similis , Holothuria nobilis
- Category
- Resources Survey
- environmental resources, protection and conservation. Examples: environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape
- Regions
- C ! , JS 5 , M 1 , M 2
- Owner
- prds1
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
D.C.T. Dissanayake and G. Stefansson. (2012). Journal of the Marine Association of the United Kingdom, 92(4): 831-841.
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