Title: National Fisheries Development Board and Fisheries Policy
Abstract: Indian fisheries and aquaculture are important sectors of food production,
providing nutritional security to the food basket, contributing to the
agricultural exports and engaging about fourteen million people in different
activities. With diverse resources ranging from deep seas to lakes in the
mountains and more than 10% of the global biodiversity in terms of fish
and shellfish species, the country has shown continuous and sustained
increments in fish production since independence. Constituting about 4.4%
of the global fish production, the sector contributes to 1.07% of the GDP
and 4.7% of the agricultural GDP. The total fish production of 6.4 million
metric tonnes presently has nearly 55% contribution from the inland sector
and nearly the same from culture fisheries. Paradigm shifts in terms of
increasing contributions from inland sector and further from aquaculture
are significant over the years. With high growth rates, the different facets
of marine fisheries, coastal aquaculture, mariculture inland fisheries,
freshwater aquaculture and coldwater fisheries are increasingly being
diversified, contributing to food, health, economy, exports, employment
and tourism of the country.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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