Catch Efficiency of Cast Nets for Snow Trout Fishing in Dal Lake, Kashmir

Abstract

Experimental cast net fishing was carried out in the
Dal Lake of Kashmir to study the catching efficiency,
species wise catch composition and size frequency.
In terms of fish caught by numbers, cast net Type
II monofilament stringed landed 107 fishes and Type
I monofilament stringless landed 104 fishes. Multifilament
stringed net caught 65 fishes and multifilament
stringless net caught only 64 fishes out of
50 operations of each cast net. Four species of snow
trout were caught in experimental operations.
During the study the monofilament cast nets were
found to have better catching efficiency than the
multifilament cast nets.