Marine fishes in india

1.What is the total length of India's coastline?

Answer: 8,118 km

2.How many Maritime States are there in India?

Answer: 9

3.How many Maritime Union Territories are there in India?

Answer: 4

4.What is the total area of India's Exclusive Economic Zone

(EEZ)?
Answer: 2,020,000 sq. km

5.Which Indian state has the maximum annual potential yield

from the EEZ?
Answer: Andaman & Nicobar Islands
6.Which category of fish includes species like Sardines,
Mackerel, and Tuna?
Answer: Surface-water Fish (Pelagic)

7.Which species of Sardine contributes the largest share to

India's fishery?
Answer: Indian Oil Sardine

8.What is the main season for Oil Sardine landing in India?

Answer: Post-monsoon season

9.How many species of Lesser Sardines are found in Indian

waters?
Answer: 9

10.In which Indian states can you find concentrations of Lesser

Sardines?
Answer: Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu,

11.What percentage of the total pelagic fish landings in India is

contributed by Anchovies?
Answer: 6%
12.Which Indian states support 95% of the average annual catch
of anchovies?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala

13.What are the two species of Mackerel found in Indian

waters?
Answer: Indian Mackerel and Indian Chub Mackerel

14.Which family do Seerfishes belong to?

Answer: Scombridae

15.What is another name for the Narrow-barred Spanish

Mackerel?
Answer: Scomberomorus commerson

16.What percentage of global tuna catches come from the

Indian Ocean?
Answer: Around 19%

17.Which Indian islands have the world's richest stocks of

Tunas?
Answer: Andaman Islands

18.What is the common name for Euthynnus affinis?

Answer: Little Tunny

19.Which fish is captured using a characteristic bag-net known

as 'dol'?
Answer: Bombay-duck

20.Where is Cobia commonly farmed in India?

Answer: Sea Cages

21.What is the unique characteristic of Flatfishes?

Answer: Both eyes on one side of the body

22.How many species of flatfish are reported in Indian waters?

Answer: About 91

23.Which species of flatfish contributes to a regular fishery of

significance in India?
Answer: Malabar Tongue Sole
24.What is the term for the area up to 12 nautical miles from
the coastline where a country has jurisdiction?
Answer: Territorial Sea

25.How many Fish Landing Centres are there in India?

Answer: 1,537

26.How many Fishing Villages are there in India?

Answer: 3,432

27.Approximately how many Fisher-folk Families are there in

India?
Answer: 874,749

28.What is the fisher-folk population in India?

Answer: 4,056,213

29.Which Indian state has the longest coastline?

Answer: Gujarat
30.Which Indian state has the second longest coastline?
Answer: Tamil Nadu

31.What is the main fishing season for anchovies in India?

Answer: September to November

31.Which Indian state has the highest concentration of Indian

Oil Sardine?
Answer: Kerala

32.Which region along the Indian coasts has a concentration of

Lesser Sardines?
Answer: Goa

33.What is the peak season for anchovy catches in India?

Answer: September to November

34.Which species of anchovy contributes the most to the

fishery?
Answer: Stolephorus
36.Where are Tunas commonly found in Indian waters?
Answer: Andaman Islands

37.What is the scientific name of the Indian Mackerel?

Answer: Rastrelliger kanagurta

38.What is the main fishing season for Sardines in India?

Answer: Post-monsoon season

39.What percentage of total marine fish landings in

Lakshadweep Islands is contributed by Tunas?
Answer: 85

40.Which family does the Indian Oil Sardine belong to?

Answer: Clupeidae

41.What is the scientific name of the Goldstripe Sardine?

Answer: Sardinella gibbosa

42.Which family does the Goldstripe Sardine belong to?

Answer: Clupeidae

43.What is the scientific name of the Fringescale Sardine?

Answer: Sardinella fimbriata

43.Which family does the Fringescale Sardine belong to?

Answer: Clupeidae

44.What is the scientific name of the Indian Anchovy?

Answer: Stolephorus indicus

43.Which family does the Indian Anchovy belong to?

Answer: Engraulidae

44.What is the scientific name of the Goldspotted Grenadier

Anchovy?
Answer: Coilia dussumieri

46.Which family does the Goldspotted Grenadier Anchovy

belong to?
Answer: Engraulidae
47.What is the scientific name of the Malbar Anchovy?
Answer: Thryssa malabarica

49.Which family does the Malbar Anchovy belong to?

Answer: Engraulidae

50.What is the scientific name of the Indian Mackerel?

Answer: Rastrelliger kanagurta

51.Which family does the Indian Mackerel belong to?

Answer: Scombridae

52.What is the scientific name of the Indian Chub Mackerel?

Answer: Scomber indicus

53.What is the scientific name of the Narrow-barred Spanish

Mackerel?
Answer: Scomberomorus commerson
55.What is the scientific name of the Little Tunny?
Answer: Euthynnus affinis

56.Which family does the Little Tunny belong to?

Answer: Scombridae

57.What is the scientific name of the Oriental Bonito?

Answer: Sarda orientalis

58.Which family does the Oriental Bonito belong to?

Answer: Scombridae

59.What is the scientific name of the Yellowfin Tuna?

Answer: Thunnus albacares

60.Which family does the Yellowfin Tuna belong to?

Answer: Scombridae

61.What is the scientific name of the Bigeye Tuna?

Answer: Thunnus obesus

62.Which family does the Bigeye Tuna belong to?

Answer: Scombridae

63.What is the scientific name of the Skipjack Tuna?

Answer: Katsuwonus pelamis

64.Which family does the Skipjack Tuna belong to?

Answer: Scombridae

65.What is the scientific name of the Bombay-duck?

Answer: Harpodon nehereus

66.Which family does the Bombay-duck belong to?

Answer: Polynemidae