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....e expression "prawn" in Notification No. HI-17041/57/RD-1, dated 1st November, 1958. The notification appears on pages 3319 and 3320 of Part I of the Kerala Gazette dated 4th November, 1958. 2.. An article entitled "Prawns, Shrimps and Lobsters" in the Seafood Trade Journal for January, 1967, deals with them as follows: "Prawns, shrimps and lobsters belong to the class of animals popularly known ....

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.... to crawl or walk over the substratum with their legs borne on the lower side of the cephalothorax. They can also swim when required with the help of the thin leaflike limbs (pleopods or swimmerets) on the abdomen and take sudden leaps backwards by quickly bending the abdomen downwards." (page 152.) "The majority of prawns contributing to the valuable prawn fishery of the country-marine, estuarin....

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....s cured by sun-drying-the chief method of preservation known and practised in those days. With the adoption of modern methods of processing and preservation like canning and quick-freezing, a new chapter has opened in the history of the Indian seafood Industry, about a decade ago. " (page 20.) "One very significant aspect of the developments during the last few years was the rapid expansion in th....