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Report to the Government of Baroda on the Marine Zoology of Okhamandal in Kattiawar

1909

By arrangement with the Ceylon authorities my services were lent to the Government of Baroda at the end of 1905 for the purpose of investigating the economic marine resources of the coast of Okhamandal an outlying portion of His Highness the Gaekwar's possessions forming the north-west extremity of the peninsula of Kattiawar. [...] The plankton (minute free-swimming life of the sea) could wish to comprise a larger number of samples but the material will be found ample I believe to enable an approximate census to he made both of the relative and the absolute proportions present in the Okha waters of the chief organisms which contribute to the dietary of the two forms of pearl oysters found in this locality. [...] Some Arabs are stated even to have averred that the west coast of Okhamandal "abounds with pearl oysters especially to the west of the villages of Bhimrana and Mojab."1 Another reason which favoured the presumption that a pearl fishery might be worked on this coast was the fact that further to he eastward along the southern shore of the Gulf of Kutch and within the limits of the State of Nawanaga [...] From the foregoing and from the knowledge acquired during the examination of the Beyt and Poshetra reefs we see that at its best along the lengthy sea frontage of Jamnagar of which lie numbers of productive reefs of much greater circuit than any within the limits of Okhamandal the pearl fishery of the Gulf of Kutch is what may be termed a village industry. [...] Beyt Harbour is an ideal haven for the location of the headquarters of a fishing fleet exploiting on the one hand the long stretches of muddy and gravelly bottom of the Gulf of Kutch and on the other the teeming surface waters of the Arabian Sea.
technology medicine science
Pages
174
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.147161
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i James Hornell view
Preface
ii-xi James Hornell view
Report to the Government of Baroda on the Prospects of Establishing a Pearl Fishery and Other Marine Industries on the Coast of Okhamandal
1-vii James Hornell view
Note on the Industrial Development of Okhamandal
35-42 V. M. Samarth view
Report Upon the Anatomy of Placuna Placenta with Notes Upon its Distribution and Economic Uses
43-vi James Hornell view
Description of a new Species of Pinnoterreess From Placuna Placenta with a note on the Genus
99-i James Hornell, T. Southwell view
Report on the Anomura Collected By Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905-6
105-i T. Southwell view
Report on a Collection of Alcyonarians from Okhamandal in Kattiawar Made By Mr. James Hornell in 1904-5
125-136 J. Thomson, George Crane view
Report on the Nudibranchs Collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal in Kattiawar in 1905-6
137-148 Charles Eliot view

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