Commercial trawl fisheries off Kakinada during 1969-1978

Experimental and exploratory trawling oif Kakinada By the Central and State Government organizations Was initiated in 1960 but the commercial exploitation Of the resources by small-sized trawlers started in 1964. The staff attached to the Research Centre at Kakinada have been collecting data in a systematic way on various resources, since the beginning of commercial trawling at Kakinada, to understand the resource characteristics and also to provide the data to various organizations and enterpreneurs interested in the same. The data Collected during the 10 year period (1969-1978) are incorporated in this report