Information on diet composition and feeding habits of species is very much essential for the scientific planning to develop sustainable management plans. The biology Trichiurus lepturus was studied during 2014 2018 from 6167 3346 specimens collected a weekly basis along Eastern Arabian Sea (EAS) Western Bay Bengal (WBB), respectively. Crustaceans mainly represented Acetes spp. (98.6 %) were cat...

Organochlorine pesticides (OCP) are legacy anthropogenic compounds known to persist for several years in the environment. The continuous use of some OCP, such as DDT, after restrictions developing countries cause concern, due their deleterious effects marine life and humans. Studies assessing OCP contamination coastal environments still scarce South America there is a need understand impacts fr...

Breast feathers were used to estimate mercury levels in six marine birds nesting in the tropical western Indian Ocean, i.e. Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata), Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus), Lesser Noddy (Anous tenuirostris), Audubon Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri bailloni), Barau's Petrel (Pterodroma baraui) and the White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus). Juveniles consistently showed lower plu...