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Fishing is the way of life of most of coastal community. So, the marine fish fauna gives a greater commercial value to the country's economy, as well as well being of the coastal people. [2] Marine fish are strictly different from freshwater counterparts due to high salinity of sea water, which they live.
A fine kind of the fish called papalina thrives in the island's wide bay of Kalloni, and ouzo production has been a long tradition in the area of Plomari. A handful of manufacturers of Lesvos produce and export canned sardines, considered a local delicacy.
In Tamil Nadu, it is known locally as the pappan or pappa [5] In Goa, the fish is known as kalundar. [6] In Odisha, the local name is kundal. [7] In Sri Lanka this fish is known as Mal koraliya. It has been introduced in various parts of the world outside its native range, [1] including Singapore, where it occurs in estuaries. [8]
The Indian mackerel is found in warm shallow waters along the coasts of the Indian and Western Pacific oceans. Its range extends from the Red Sea and East Africa in the west to Indonesia in the east, and from China and the Ryukyu Islands in the north to Australia, Melanesia and Samoa in the south. [3]
Byeongeo-gui (grilled pomfret)This fish is prized in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region for its taste. Its flesh is soft and buttery when cooked. It is called "Rupchanda" in Bengali, pamplet in Marathi [4] or Maanji in Mumbai, paaplet (Konkani: पापलेट) in Goa, avoli (Malayalam: ആവോലി) in Kerala and vawall (Tamil: வௌவால்) in parts of South India.
Thamirabarani River is full of fishes and it is one of the perennial rivers in Tamil Nadu. Locals not involved in fishing resulting in the vast diversity of fishes in the river. As water flows non-stop throughout the year, it is one of the most fish-rich river in the world where the river is dominated by more than 16 native Snakehead species ...
Sprat is the common name applied to a group of forage fish belonging to the genus Sprattus in the family Clupeidae.The term also is applied to a number of other small sprat-like forage fish (Clupeoides, Clupeonella, Corica, Ehirava, Hyperlophus, Microthrissa, Nannothrissa, Platanichthys, Ramnogaster, Rhinosardinia, and Stolothrissa).
The climbing perch (Anabas testudineus) is a species of amphibious freshwater fish in the family Anabantidae (the climbing gouramis).A labyrinth fish native to Far Eastern Asia, the fish inhabits freshwater systems from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the west, to Southern China in the east, and to Southeast Asia west of the Wallace Line in the south.