Fisheries plays a pivotal role in the economy, food security, foreign exchange earnings and employment of coastal population. Maharashtra is bestowed with coastline 720 km spread over 7 districts, viz. Thane, Palghar, Mumbai city, suburban, Raigad, Ratnagiri Sindhudurg along Arabian sea rich marine fishery resources. There are 25 fishing zones seven districts 173 fish landing centres. The total...

The inaccessibility of open ocean habitat and the cryptic nature of small animals are fundamental problems when assessing the distribution of oceanic-stage sea turtles and other marine animals sharing similar life-history traits. Most methods that estimate patterns of abundance cannot be applied in situations that are extremely data limited. Here, we use a movement ecology framework to generate...

The gene that encodes vitellogenin (Vg), the precursor of the major yolk protein, vitellin, is expressed during vitellogenesis in decapod crustaceans. In this study, we sequenced the full-length cDNA from the Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Vg gene (LvVg). This is the first open thelycum penaeid shrimp Vg cDNA to be sequenced. The transcript encodes a 2587 amino acid polypeptide with ...

Oceanic currents are known to broadly shape the dispersal of juvenile sea turtles during their pelagic stage. Accordingly, simple passive drift models are widely used to investigate the distribution at sea of various juvenile sea turtle populations. However, evidence is growing that juveniles do not drift purely passively but also display some swimming activity likely directed towards favorable...

background: reptiles, especially turtles that inhabit both on land and water, have made some special adaptations. many people keep turtles as pets. therefore, the anatomical knowledge of turtles should be more carefully evaluated and used for therapeutic purposes. one of these turtles is european pond turtle (emys orbicularis). most of vital systems are enclosed by the carapace and the plastron...

Seagrass meadows are highly productive and ecologically important habitats in estuaries and coastal lagoons, and contain a variety of faunal communities, from which the caridean shrimps are a dominant component. The purpose of this work was to analyze the environmental parameters of water and sediments, with the biological components in seagrass epifaunal communities, from the Western Gulf of M...

submitted to the 25 Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Night-time spectral sensitivity of adult female leatherback sea turtles Levenson, D.H., Eckert, S.A. Crognale, M.A., Duhamel, P., Kubis, S.A. and Harms, C.A. Flicker electroretinography (ERG) was used to measure the spectral sensitivity of adult female leatherback sea turtles in vivo on a nesting beach on the southern Caribbe...