Title: Marine Fisheries Information Service No.241
Abstract: The marine fisheries sector in India has a rich natural resource
base comprising more than 800 species of commercial
importance, spread in fish landings over a long coastline of
nearly 8000 km. Of the total fish diverstity in India,the marine
fishes constitute 76% with 2,443 species belonging to 927
genera and as many as 91 endemic species in coastal waters.
The valuation of marine fish landings in India at the landing
centre was an estimated `52636 crores in 2018. Fish and
fish products emerged as the largest group in agricultural
exports from India in 2019, and a substantial portion was
contributed by the marine fisheries sector. Realising the
merit in sustainable exploitation of the fishery resources, the
fisheries management regime in India is increasingly moving
from an ‘open-access’ dominated nature towards regulated
fisheries. Unique fisheries management templates for India
with its basis on local socio-economic dimensions and human
development needs are required. Innovative technologies in
open sea cage farming as well as low-cost cages suitable
in estuarine and coastal areas have emerged from research
institutions and need to be taken to the fishermen and fish
farmers in a big way to achieve the target of a Blue Revolution.
Against this backdrop, some research insights are presented
in this issue of MFIS
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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