The ribbonfishes (Family-Trichiuridae) are thin, long, ribbon-like fishes, that constitute a major share of marine catches of India. They are also known as cutlass fishes due to their extremely compressed and double-edged sword like body. Although primarily consumed locally in fresh condition or used as popular baits in hook and line for capturing larger fishes like seerfish, ribbonfishes were not given much attention by the fishermen. But they are regularly exported in sun dried or salt-cured condition as well as in frozen condition to more than 30 countries around the world from...