Govindaraj Mohanraj

• Master of Business Administration
• Final year at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology

The economics of fishery from artificial reef (AR) and non-artificial reef (NAR) sites by gillnet and hooks & line was studied during 2007-08 from 11 fishing villages in 6 coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu State Fisheries Department fabricated and deployed the reefs under the technical guidance of the Central Marine Fisheries Research...

During the period 1998-2007, an annual average of 20,898 t of marine resources was landed by trawlers at Kasimedu, Chennai, by expending a mean annual effort of 35,608 units. The annual catch during 1998-2007 showed fluctuations between 12182 t in 2005 and 35,838 t in 2002. The mean annual effort of 13.21 lakh h in 1998 dropped down to 5.08 lakh h...

The fishery and population characteristics of larger sciaenids Protonibea diacanthus (Lacepede) and Otolithoides biauritus (Cantor) landed by trawlers at Vanakbara, Diu were studied for the period 2003 - 2007. The average annual catch of P. diacanthus was 770.61 and that of O. biauritus was 1018.61, together contributing 12% to the total trawl catc...

The trophodynamics and reproductive biology of koth Otolithoides biauritus caught by trawlers at Vanakbara, Diu was studied for the period from September 2005 to May 2008. The length-weight relationship showed that growth was allometric and there was no significant difference between the sexes. The overall sex ratio was 1:1.09 with mature females o...

The fishery and population characteristics of silver pomfret Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen) caught by gillnetters off Veraval were studied for the period from 2003 to 2007. The average annual landing of R argenteus was 114.5 t, which contributed 4.5% to the total gill net catches. The period from July to September was the most productive in terms of...

Catches of elasmobranchs in India showed an increasing trend from 27.4 thousand t in 1961 to 49 thousand t in 2006. During 2006, among the total elasmobranch catches throughout India, Tamil Nadu contributed substantially with 10.8 thousand tonnes. Observations on elasmobranchs fishery in Chennai for a period of 5 years from 2002–2006 was carried ou...

The ocean leatherjacket (Nelusetta ayraudi) has a long history of commercial exploitation in New South Wales, Australia. Records of reported landings indicate that substantial peaks of between 600 and 900 tonnes per annum occurred during the 1920s and again during the 1950s. These peaks were followed by large declines, which suggest that this speci...

The fisheries service provided by an artificial reef (AR) with a pile size of 450 m 3 deployed at 20 m depth off Chinnandikuppam, 20 km south of Chennai was assessed. In 16 months, the fishermen expended 3843.7 hours of hooks & line fishing in the AR ground and landed 6404 kg. The catch index was 14.2 kg/m 3 and the total income was Rs. 2,74,000. C...