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Finfish Juvenile Destruction in and around the World Heritage Site of Indian Sundarbans and Possible Mitigative Steps

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  • Abhijit Mitra

    (Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, India)

  • Goutam Roy Chowdhury

    (Chancellor, Techno India University, India)

  • Tanmay Ray Chaudhuri

    (Department of Oceanography, Techno India University, India)

Abstract

West Bengal is a maritime state in the northeast part of the Indian sub-continent adjacent to Bangladesh, which has a coastal area of 10,158.22 sq. km. The coastal zone encompasses the famous mangrove ecosystem of Indian Sundarbans, which can be divided into various transects on the basis of salinity. The practice of wild harvest of tiger prawn seeds in the present geographical locale is the greatest ecological threat in terms of magnitude as a large variety of fish juveniles are damaged during the screening process. The present paper deals with the finfish juvenile count and diversity in three different salinity regimes of the coastal ecosystem with particular emphasis on their spatial and temporal variations for a span of ten years (January, 2007 to December, 2016).

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  • Abhijit Mitra & Goutam Roy Chowdhury & Tanmay Ray Chaudhuri, 2017. "Finfish Juvenile Destruction in and around the World Heritage Site of Indian Sundarbans and Possible Mitigative Steps," Oceanography & Fisheries Open Access Journal, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 1(4), pages 77-82, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jofoaj:v:1:y:2017:i:4:p:77-82
    DOI: 10.19080/OFOAJ.2017.01.555567
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