Assessment and exploitation of the pomfret fishery by the industrial fishing fleets in Bangladesh

In this study, pomfret fishery data were collected from the 93 commercial fishing trawlers from July 2008 to June 2009 in Bangladesh. Total fish production of these fishing trawlers was 30191.071 MetricTons (MT). Among them, the estimated catch of pomfret was 305.466 MT of which caught within total 18651961.05 hours and an average catch per hour of pomfret was 0.016 kilogram (kg). Three species of pomfret were recorded under the family stromateidae and carangidae. The average tow duration of per trawler per day was 16.25 hours. The percentage contribution by weight showed that, the highest catchof percentage was 1.88 and the lowest was 0.38; and the average catch percentage of pomfret was 1.01 of the total fish production in the trawl fishing. The highest landing of pomfret was recorded 65.460 MTin the month of November, 2008 and lowest was 1.146 MT in July, 2008 at the same study period.