Heavy landing of tuna by multiday deep searingseiners at Cuddalore.

In Tamil Nadu, Cuddalore fishing harbour is known for ringseine operation and in February 2018, the fishermen introduced multiday deep sea ringseine for oceanic tunas and the result was encouraging ( Sivadas et al., 2018. Mar. Fish. Infor. Ser. T & E Ser. No.235). Now the fishermen from neighbouring areas like Pazhayar, Kalpakkam etc also started practising this fishing. In 2019 since July, there were good landings by this gear. A brief account of the landings during July and August is given below to highlight their role in exploitation of both inshore and oceanic tunas. In a boat the catch varied from 5 t to 30 t. Initially the catch was comprised by yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna.