| Abstract |
Deepsea fishing is a much talked about subject and has been a misinterpreted term often used conveniently for over exploitation of the marine living resources especially fish and fisheries of the coastal waters. It is already reported by FAO and other agencies that over exploitation of the coastal waters has been going on in the name of deepsea industrial fishing. Terminologies like deepsea, continental shelf, continental slope, inshore, off shore, neritic, oceanic, pelagic, demersal, plankton, nekton and benthos are defined. Resources in the inshore, off shore and oceanic realms of the ocean are briefly mentioned. Fishing methods adopted for different zones of the sea are also accounted. New fishery resources for exploitation are mentioned for further investigations and developments achieved are being accounted based on deepsea fishing investigations conducted by large vessels in the country. Unconventional resources like deepsea fishes, mesopelagic like Myctophids (Lantern fishes), Oceanic squids, Oceanic Tunas and tuna like fishes, pelagic sharks and deepsea sharks are some of the new resources for exploitation and commercial utilization. |
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