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Volume 39 Number 1		March 2010
CONTENTS
	EDITORIAL
7	Conservation and management of wetland systems
	ANNOUNCEMENT
10	International conference on Climate Change and Environment And International Workshop on Climate Change & Island Vulnerability
	CONFERENCE REPORT
13	National Conference on “Scientific strategies for protection and preservation of wetlands in India” held at Jawaharlal Nehru University on 11^th - 12^th January 2010
	RESEARCH ARTICLES
15	Assessment of surface circulation using remote-sensed data, in-situ measurements and directional statistics G Kalantzi, T H Soukissian & K Nittis
27	A comparative study of heavy metal concentrations in red seaweeds from different coastal areas of Karachi, Arabian Sea Rashida Qari & Sardar Alam Siddiqui
43	Comparison of biological characteristics of the horse Mackerel (Trachurus trachurus L. 1758) which caught of different fishing gears in the Southern Black Sea (Turkey) Serap Samsun, Ferhat Kalaycı, Cemalettin Şahin, Osman Samsun & Ahmet Mutlu Gözler
49	Radiotracer investigation for bed-load movement at New Mangalore Port, Mangalore, India V K Sharma, H J Pant, H B Jagadeesh, A S Chalawadi, B K Girish & Gursharan Singh
57	Seasonal influence on settlement, distribution and diversity of fouling organisms at Mumbai harbour B S Swami & M Udhayakumar
68	Study of age and growth of Indian sand whiting, sillago sihama (Forsskal) from Zuari estuary, Goa E F Shamsan & Z A Ansari
74	Changes in the occurrence of hard substratum faunal composition: A case study from Mumbai harbour, India Chetan A Gaonkar, Subhash S Sawant, Arga Chandrashekar Anil, Venkat Krishnamurthy & Sadanand N Harkantra
85	Heavy metal enrichment in seagrasses of Andaman Islands and its implication to the health of the coastal ecosystem T Thangaradjou, E P Nobi, E Dilipan , K Sivakumar & S Susila
92	Significance of textural analysis in the sediments of Kayamkulam lake, southwest coast of India, Reji Srinivas & Kurian Sajan
100	Antibacterial activity in the accessory nidamental gland extracts of the Indian squid, Loligo duvauceli Orbigny Gomathi P, Nair J R & Sherief P M
105	Water quality status and Primary productivity of Valanthakad Backwater in Kerala S Meera & S Bijoy Nandan
114	Studies on captive breeding and larval rearing of clown fish, Amphiprion sebae (Bleeker, 1853) using estuarine water T T Ajith Kumar, Subodh Kant Setu, P Murugesan & T Balasubramanian
120	Carapace width and weight relationships, condition factor, relative condition factor and gonado-somatic index (GSI) of mud crabs (Scylla spp.) from Chilika Lagoon, India Anil Mohapatra, Rajeeb K Mohanty, Surya K Mohanty & S K Dey
128	Diurnal variability of heat fluxes over the coastal waters off Visakhapatnam during post-monsoon and winter seasons Ch. Venkata Ramu, G Bharathi, Y Sadhuram & K V S R Prasad
136	Studies on tide depended salt-silt wedge and identification of turbidity maxima in Cochin estuary P R Renosh, K Rasheed & A N Balchand
143	Effect of addition of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers on biodegradation of crude oil by marine bacteria Trupti K Vyas & B P Dave
151	Characterization and infectivity evaluation of vibrio harveyi causing white patch disease among captive reared seahorses, hippocampus kuda S Thampi Raj, A P Lipton & G S Chauhan