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Hilsa Kelee Fish

This document provides information on the Hilsa kelee fish, including its scientific classification, distribution, diagnostic features, feeding habits, life cycle, migration patterns, and fisheries. It notes that Hilsa kelee is an anadromous fish found in coastal waters and estuaries in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. The stocks are considered overexploited due to fishing pressure. Problems facing Hilsa fisheries include unsustainable mortality rates and overfishing beyond current sustainable levels.

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Hilsa Kelee Fish

This document provides information on the Hilsa kelee fish, including its scientific classification, distribution, diagnostic features, feeding habits, life cycle, migration patterns, and fisheries. It notes that Hilsa kelee is an anadromous fish found in coastal waters and estuaries in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. The stocks are considered overexploited due to fishing pressure. Problems facing Hilsa fisheries include unsustainable mortality rates and overfishing beyond current sustainable levels.

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PROMINENT OF MARINE

FISHERIES: HILSA KELEE


CONTENT
• SCEINTIFIC CLASSIFICATION
• STATUS: WORLD WIDE
• DISTRIBUTION & DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES
• FOOD AND FEEDING
• GROWTH AND REPORUDCUTION
• LIFE- CYCLE
• MIGRATION AND SHOALING BEHAVIOUR
• CRAFT AND GEARUSED FOR CATCHING
• ANNUAL CATCH TREND
• PROBLEMS IN HILSA FISHIRIES
SCEINTIFIC CLASSIFICATION

Kingdom: Animalia Subclass : Teleostei


Phylum : Chordata Order : Clupeiformes
Sub-phylum : Vertebrata Family : Clupeidae
Infra-phylum : Gnathostomata Genus : Hilsa
Giga-class: Actinopterygii Species : Hilsa Kelee
Class : Actinopteri
INTRODUCTION

• The Kelee shad (Tenualosa ilisha), Hilsa kelee is a pelagic fish, inhabiting
coastal waters and estuaries.

• Hilsa kelee, called the kelee shad, five-spot herring is a species of shad
native to the coasts and estuaries of the Indian Ocean and the western
Pacific, generally west Bengal and other north East Coasts.

• It’s found on Marine, freshwater, brackish, and pelagic waters, but it also
enters estuaries and able to tolerate quite low salinities.
DISTRIBUTION

• Hilsa is distributed in Indo-West Pacific: probably all coasts of Indian


Ocean, from Gulf of Oman and Gulf of Aden south to Durban and
Madagascar, across the Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Thailand, Java Sea and
north to Hong Kong and east to Papua New Guinea and possibly further.

• In Somalia there is no record on Hilsa Kelee disturibution.


DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES

• The body of Hilsa is covered by silvery skin with gold and purple
colour spots, although adult fish has no spot. Lower jaws is not
projecting beyond the upper. Caudal lobes equal to the length of the
head.
FOOD AND FEEDING

• Hilsa feeds chiefly on phytoplankton, mainly diatoms, also


dinoflagellates, but also copepods, molluscan and crustacean larvae,
prawns, amphipods and polychaetes.

• A study on the dynamic of diet on Hilsa found that 185 stomachs of H.


kelee found to contain food, while 49 H. kelee stomachs is empty.
Among stomachs containing food, 25.4% for H. Kelee and comprised
unidentifiable food items
GROWTH AND REPORUDCUTION

• Hilsa is heterosexual (opposite gender), the males mature earlier


than females, with the maturity 30 cms while females is 35 cms,
however, the female releases 3 to 20 lakhs of eggs.
• The main spawning seems to take place during October-January
with a peak in December. There is also some evidence that
spawning takes place during June-July.
LIFE- CYCLE
MIGRATION AND SHOALING
BEHAVIOUR
• Hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha)is an anadromous migratory fish. It migrates
from the Bay of Bengal to the freshwater for spawning.

• Tagging is the usual method to study the movement and migration of


the fish.
CRAFT AND GEARUSED FOR CATCHING

SEINES GILLNET
LIFENETS TRAWLS
ANNUAL CATCH TREND
PROBLEMS OF HILSA FISHIRIES

• FOA said, Hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) stocks are among the stocks
considered within un-sustainable levels which are either fully fished or
overexploited.

• Present estimations showed that the mortality in Hilsa kelee was higher,
and that indicating the state of the stock is un-sustainable and the fishery
of kelee shad should not be increased beyond current levels.
REFERENCES

• Panhwar, S. K., & Liu, Q. (2013). Population statistics of the


migratory hilsa shad, T enualosa ilisha, in S indh, P akistan. Journal of
Applied Ichthyology, 29(5), 1091-1096.

• Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Fisheries Department.


(2022). The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2022 (Vol. 3).
Food & Agriculture Org..
• Cardinale, M., Chacate, O., Casini, M., Chaúca, I., & Helge Vølstad, J.
(2014). CPUE trends of Hilsa kelee and Thryssa vitrirostris exploited
by the artisanal finfish fisheries in Mozambique derived from an on-
shore sampling of catches by trip. Scientia Marina, 78(1), 55-64.

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