The Commercial Fishes of the Bay of Bengal |
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anal fins Average length 5-6 Bay of Bengal behundinets Bloch Body elongate Butter fish Caudal fin caught in large Chanda coastal and offshore coastal waters Colour Colour-bluish Colour-grey Colour-silvery commercial fishes commercial group commercial species compressed Cuvier Datina deeper waters Dorsal and anal dorsal fin East Pakistan East Pakistan Fisheries estuaries family includes feet finlets behind dorsal fish is caught fishing grounds Forskal gillnets group of fishes Hangar Hilsa Himantura Himantura uarnak Himantura walga Ilisha indicus Jew fishes Johnius kanagurta large commercial quantities lateral line length 5-6 inches lower estuaries Lutianus machh Mackerel Maximum length microdon offshore waters Otolithoides Pakistan Fisheries Development Pastinachus sephen Pectoral fin Pomfret pounds PRIACANTHIDAE rays rows Scales Sciaenoides scutes Shad sides and belly silvery on sides small-meshed trawlnets South Patches Sphyrna spines spots Stromateus Swatch Tachysurus teeth Therapon Threadfin trawl catches Trichiurus Urdu ventral fin waters of East weighing yellowish young specimens চান্দা