Title: Overview on mariculture and the opportunities and challenges of cage culture in India
Abstract: India is the fourth largest producer of fish in the world
and the total fish production is around 6 Mt per year
and its share in the GDP is around 1.4%. The world annual
growth rate in aquaculture production has been 7.05%
since 1971 (FAO 2008). In 2006, aquaculture comprised
41.8% of total seafood supply. Indian aquaculture has
demonstrated a six and half fold growth over the last two
decades, with freshwater aquaculture contributing over
95 percent of the total aquaculture production. Given the
status of global fisheries, with most large fish stocks being fully exploited or over-exploited, aquaculture production must increase in order to maintain or increase the global seafood supply per capita.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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