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Phytoplankton, Primary Productivity, and Fishery: Case Study from the Northern Indian Ocean

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Phytoplankton are the base of the food web, and their efficiency to capture carbon in the organic form via the process of photosynthesis determines the rate of primary productivity. Similar to many other species in the higher trophic levels, fish stocks are inherently dependent on primary productivity. This could be in the form of larval survival that determines the success of recruitment or in the form of providing food for adult fishes that takes up long migration to the breeding ground. The dynamics of phytoplankton distribution itself is connected to the met-ocean processes, including teleconnection to the processes far in the Indian Ocean or even in the Pacific Ocean. In this chapter, these linkages are described by using the fish catch landings as well as satellite remote sensing data to provide a holistic view of how fish catch may vary because of the combination of factors, including anthropogenic and natural.

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  1. Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (MoES-INCOIS), Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Nimit Kumar

  2. TNJFU – Fisheries College and Research Institute, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India

    S. Manickavasagam & M. Ponmani

  3. ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India

    V. R. Madhu & B. Meenakumari

  4. Indian Council of Agriculture Research, Pusa, Delhi, India

    B. Meenakumari

  5. National Biodiversity Authority, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    B. Meenakumari

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Kumar, N., Manickavasagam, S., Ponmani, M., Madhu, V.R., Meenakumari, B. (2023). Phytoplankton, Primary Productivity, and Fishery: Case Study from the Northern Indian Ocean. In: Tripathy, S.C., Singh, A. (eds) Dynamics of Planktonic Primary Productivity in the Indian Ocean. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34467-1_14

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