General Test 1

Question 1

The potential of marine fish production from the Indian EEZ is _________

Answer 1

4.41 million tonnes

Question 2

Which state has the highest marine fish production?

Answer 2

Gujarat (7.01 LT, 19% of all India production)

Question 3

The major gear used to exploit tunas from the Indian coastal waters is _______________

Answer 3

drift gill net

Question 4

What’s the scientific name of frigate tuna?

Answer 4

Auxis thazard

Question 5

What is whitebait?

Answer 5

Collective term for the immature fry of fish, typically between 25 and 50 millimetres long. Such young fish often travel together in schools along coasts

Question 6

Choodavalai used to exploit the whitebaits from South west coast of India is a type of _______

Answer 6

drift gillnet

Question 7

Genus of whitefish

Answer 7

Coregonus, prosopium, stenodus

Question 8

scientific name of freshwater whitefish

Answer 8

Coregonus hoyi

Question 9

distribution of freshwater whitefish

Answer 9

relatively cool waters throughout northern parts of northern hemisphere

Question 10

scientific name of false trevally

Answer 10

Lactarius lactarius

Question 11

distribution of false trevally

Answer 11

native to Indian Ocean-Easr Africa to SE Asia, in Western Pacific Ocean-Japan to Queensland. It is marine and brackish water species occuring at depths 15-100m.

Question 12

Genus name for slip mouth

Answer 12

Leiognathus spp (Genus- bindus, equulus, longispinis)

Question 13

Alternate name for slip mouths

Answer 13

ponyfishes, slimys/slimies, silverbellies

Question 14

Which species has yielded the greatest catch than any other single wildfish species?

Answer 14

Peruvian anchoveta

Question 15

Scientific name of Peruvian anchoveta

Answer 15

Engraulis ringens

Question 16

The area of EEZ along the west coast of India

Answer 16

0.86 mn sq. km

Question 17

Total area of EEZ

Answer 17

2.37 mn sq. km

Question 18

The species of mackeral found RARELY along the S-E coast

Answer 18

Rastrelliger faughni

Question 19

Scientific name of largehead hairtail(ribbon fish)

Answer 19

Trichiurus lepturus

Question 20

Which is a dominant species of ribbon fish occuring in ribbon fish landings

Answer 20

largehead hairtail

Question 21

leatherjackets are included in ______ group of fishes

Answer 21

Carangids

Question 22

scientific name of short neck clam

Answer 22

Paphia malabarica

Question 23

Examples of deep sea shrimp

Answer 23

Metapenaeopsis jerryi, Aristeus alcocki, Penaeopsis jerryi

Question 24

______ is the gear used to catch Bombay duck along N-W coast of India

Answer 24

gillnet