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Marine Fishery Regulations and Policies for Conservation in India

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Title Marine Fishery Regulations and Policies for
Conservation in India
 
Creator Shinoj, P
Ramachandran, C
 
Subject Policy
Conservation
Marine Fisheries
 
Description India, being one of the largest marine fisheries in the world, has high stakes in managing its coastal
and marine resources. The marine resources in India are highly diverse comprising of an exclusive
economic zone of 2.02 million km2 besides a continental shelf area of nearly 0.50 million square
kilometers. The capture fisheries sector in India, though experienced a rapid expansion in the recent
decades with the advent of mechanized fishing during 1980s, has started showing signs of over
capitalization and consequent crises. Experts in the field have already highlighted the impending
problems such as declining catch rate and diminishing returns, overfishing and /juvenile fishing
leading to depletion of fish stock, rampant destruction of marine biota due to high-intensity trawling,
and so on (Devaraj and Vivekanandan,1999; Ramachandran, 2004). The imminent crisis is
increasingly getting reflected through frequent conflicts between various groups/factions of
fishermen/vessel operators over their rights and shares over the resources. These circumstances
echo the need for a strong regulatory and management regime for protecting and preserving the
maritime resources of the sub-continent. Though India is not new to regulations in fisheries sector
with a number of laws and rules in place for more than a century, the emerging scenario merits a
relook into the existing regulatory framework. Against this backdrop, this chapter presents global
approaches to marine fisheries regulations along with a broad overview and critical appraisal of
India’s marine fishery regulations and policies aimed at conservation and sustainable development.
 
Date 2018
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13338/1/37-Winter%20School%20on%20Recent%20Advances%20in%20Fishery%20Biology%20Techniques%20for%20Biodiversity%20Evaluation%20and%20Conservation_2018_Shinoj%20P.pdf
Shinoj, P and Ramachandran, C (2018) Marine Fishery Regulations and Policies for Conservation in India. In: ICAR Sponsored Winter School on Recent Advances in Fishery Biology Techniques for Biodiversity Evaluation and Conservation, 1-21 December 2018, Kochi.