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Pulicat Lake
seeding procedures and sophistication of fish
catching nets of the Government agencies like
State Fisheries Department and through some
local groups.
The table 6 highlights the greater extractions of
fish resources in the southern sector. It may be due
to overfishing or due to the seeding done by the
fisheries department in the southern sector of the
lake and further investigations are necessary in
this respect.
Table 6. Total and sector. wise annual landings of
fish from the Pulicat Lake
Period
1965-66
1966.67
1967
1968
1968
1970
1971
1972
Sectorwise landings (I) Tolal landings (t)
Northern Soulhern
Seclor Sector
754.837
321.0
412.659
312.678
424.400
500.240
548.724
Source : J1JJngraD~ 1991
418.414
665.000
721.151
614.209
716.300
670.730
624.617
ii. Domesticated Bio-resources
Agriculture and livestock
1173.000
986.000
1133.810
926.887
1140.700
1170.964
1173.341
1371.448
As elsewhere in south India rice is the staple food
for people living in the islands inside the Pulicat
Lake. But at the same time the system in which
they are is saline which does not allow many
species to be cultivated. However, 30 species of
frnits and 16 species of vegetables are cultivated
in the region (Table 7), among the plantation
Casuarinas cultivation is common. Around one
lakh population of livestock has been
domesticated. Cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep, and
poultry form the dominant livestock species with a
population of one lakh. On an average each have
household has one cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep and
two individual in poultry. Available data on
livestock population of some of the viliages are
given in (Table 8).
b. Aquaculture:
Table 7. Fruits and Vegetables of Pulicat region
No. Local Name Bolanical Name Part
1 Munthamamidi Anacardium occidentale Fruits
2 Panasa Artocarpus heterophyl/us Fruits
3 Thati Borassus flabel/iter Fruits
4 Pemu Calamus rotang Fruits
5 Nallabalusu Canthium parviflorum Fruits
6 Aridonda Capparis zeylanica Fruits
7 Donda Coccinia grandis Fruits
8 Kobbari Cocos nucitera Fruits
9 Doti Diospyros ferrea Fruits
10 Beera Drypetes sepia ria Fruits
11 Kundanedu Eugenia bracteata Fruits
12 Alli Ficus racemosa Fruils
13 Tenechellu Guazuma ulmitolia Fruits
14 Veiaga Umonia acidissima Fruits
15 Mamidi Mangitera indica Fruils
16 Pala Manikara hexandra Fruils
17 Pogada Mimusops elengi Fruits
18 Bontha jemudu Opunitia dilleni Fruits
19 Mogili Pandanus tectorius Fruits
20 Eetha Phoenix sylvestris Fruits
21 Seema chinta Pithecel/obium dulce Fruits
22 Jama Psidium guajava Fruits
23 Chirupala Secamone emetica Fruits
24 Neredu Syzizium cumini Fruits
25 Pullamamidi Spondias pinnata Fruits
26 Chintha Tamarindus indica Fruits
27 Regu Ziziphus mauritiana Fruits
28 Pariki Z oenoplia Fruits
29 Eetha Phoenixsp. Fruits
30 Dividivi Caesalpinia coria ria Fruits
31 Alii Memecylon umbel/a tum Leaves
32 Nelasaga sansevieria roxburghiana Leaves
33 Thati Borassus flabel/iter Leaves
34 Eetha Phoenix farinitera Leaves
35 Pedda eetha Phoenix sylvestris Leaves
36 Kobbari Cocos nucitera Leaves
37 Ponnagantikura Alternanthera sessilis . Leaves
38 Thotakura Amaranthus viridis Leaves
39 Mellaku Asystasia gangetia Leaves
40 Bacchali Basel/a rubra Leaves
41 Atikimamidi Boerhavia diffusa Leaves
42 Aridonda Capparis zeylanica Leaves
43 Donda Coccuinia grandis Leaves
44 Ishiranthakura Gisekia pharnaceoides Leaves
45 Adavigogu Hibiscus surrattensis Leaves
46 80dditeega Rivea hypocrateriformis Leaves
Aquaculture activity has attracted severe
criticism from environmentalists. At the same time
shrimp farming has become lucrative business in
the southern coast particularly in Neliore district
with 3782 hectares under aquaculture, which
surrounds three fourth area of the Pulicate Lake. Source: ISRO- SHAR _ TR -1998
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