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Tuna fisheries, especially tuna longline fisheries, are well developed in the Indian Ocean. As shown in Table 1, the total amount of tunas and tuna-like fishes caught in the Ocean in 1968 amounts to 280000 tons (Fao, 1969 b), accounting for about 12% of the total fish production from the Ocean.
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Suda, A. (1973). Tuna Fisheries and their Resources in the Indian Ocean. In: Zeitzschel, B., Gerlach, S.A. (eds) The Biology of the Indian Ocean. Ecological Studies, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65468-8_39
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