OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND FLUCTUATIONS OF PLANKTON IN THE HOOGHLY-MATLAH ESTUARINE SYSTEM, WITH NOTES ON THEIR RELATION TO COMMERCIAL FISH LANDINGS


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  • H P C Shetty Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
  • S B Saha Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
  • B B Ghosh Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore

Abstract

OBSERVATIONS'on the plankton of the Hooghly-Matlah estuarine system
were taken up in order to study its distribution and seasonal fluctuations,
as part of a comprehensive study on the commercially important fish populations
of the estuary. Some workers like Juday, Rich, Kemmerer and Mann
(1932) and Ricker (1938) have attempted to relate fluctuations in plankton
populations to the vital statistics of commercially important fishes. The
significance of plankton studies in elucidating some of the probable factors
responsible for fluctuations in abundance and movements of fish stocks is
well known. The Hooghly-Matlah esttiarine system is of great economic
importance from the fisheries point of view and a detailed study of the plankton
of this estuary is expected to throw some light on the pattern of fluctuations
in its fisheries.

Author Biographies

  • H P C Shetty, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
    Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
  • S B Saha, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
    Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
  • B B Ghosh, Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore
    Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (1961)

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Shetty, H. P. C., Saha, S. B., & Ghosh, B. B. (2011). OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND FLUCTUATIONS OF PLANKTON IN THE HOOGHLY-MATLAH ESTUARINE SYSTEM, WITH NOTES ON THEIR RELATION TO COMMERCIAL FISH LANDINGS. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 8(2), 326-363. https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJF/article/view/13552