On the breeding habits of the ribbon fish Trichiurus haumela (Forsk.)

Although ribbon fishes provide an important fishery along the east a nd west coast; of India, their shoaling, breeding and spawning habits have not been investigated in detail. VenkatramanG gave a short account of the feeding habits of ribbon fishes of the Malabar coast, and Chidambaram and Venkatraman1 dealt with the natural history of ribbon fishes