Biological studies on bangos (Chanos Chanos) / Inocencio A. Ronquillo

By:

Ronquillo, Inocencio A

Material type: Article

ArticlePublisher: Quezon City, Philippines : Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources , 1971Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISSN:

2672-2836 (Online)

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Open access

In: Philippines. The Philippine Journal of Fisheries Volume 9, Issue no. 1 & 2 (1971), page 18-37Abstract: The milkfish or bañgos, scientifically known as Chanos chanos (Forsskal), is a unique fish which has a great impact on the economy of the Philippines and Indonesia wherein about 300 million pesos are invested in its fishery. The countries of India, Malaya, North Borneo, Thailand and Vietnam have recently considered making use of this valuable marine resource. This fish, the only member of the family Chanidae, is found in the Red Sea, east Coast of Africa; all over the Indian and Pacific Oceans to Hawaii, and even in the coast of Mexico. The Philippines appears to be at the center of the range where more fry is taken than elsewhere. This fish was first described by a Dane, Forsskal, in 1775 from the Red Sea the Type Specimen (dry skin) is now preserved at the Zoological Museum in the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Of the approximately 200 species competing for food in the littroral and estuarine zones of the Indo-Pacific waters, only this fish and the mullets of the Clupeiformes depend almost exclusively on the benthic biota of the sea bottom.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode
Journal Article	NFRDI Central Office NFRDI KMRC Indexed Materials Collection	Electronic		Volume 9, Issue no. 1 & 2 (1971), page 18-37	Available		IMC000073
Journal	NFRDI Central Office NFRDI KMRC Institutional Repository Collection	Electronic	SH 1 .B9524 1971 vol. 9 no. 1 & 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Volume 9, No. 1 & 2 (January - December 1971)	Available		IRC00014

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The milkfish or bañgos, scientifically known as Chanos chanos (Forsskal), is a unique fish which has a great impact on the economy of the Philippines and Indonesia wherein about 300 million pesos are invested in its fishery. The countries of India, Malaya, North Borneo, Thailand and Vietnam have recently considered making use of this valuable marine resource. This fish, the only member of the family Chanidae, is found in the Red Sea, east Coast of Africa; all over the Indian and Pacific Oceans to Hawaii, and even in the coast of Mexico. The Philippines appears to be at the center of the range where more fry is taken than elsewhere. This fish was first described by a Dane, Forsskal, in 1775 from the Red Sea the Type Specimen (dry skin) is now preserved at the Zoological Museum in the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Of the approximately 200 species competing for food in the littroral and estuarine zones of the Indo-Pacific waters, only this fish and the mullets of the Clupeiformes depend almost exclusively on the benthic biota of the sea bottom.

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