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Outlook for marine fisheries research in India

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Title Outlook for marine fisheries research in India
 
Creator Mohan Joseph, M
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description That marine fisheries is nothing but exploitation of a natural resource and
human interventions in harnessing the resource will only harm the health of
the ecosystem has never been better understood than at a time when the
country’s marine fisheries are passing through a period of setback, stagnation
and uncertainty. There is general belief that research in the field of capture
fisheries should result in increasing fish production from the seas. However,
the truth is that fish production from the seas depends on the productivity of
the seas, the availability of fish at given point of time, the fishing effort
expended, accessibility and vulnerability of the resources coupled with
umpteen natural factors. Marine fisheries resources, unlike the land-based
resources, are invisible, migrating and easily affected by the characteristics
of the fluid medium in which they live. The resources are subject to its own
dynamics fishing pressures and natural mortalities. Man has a lot of control
on land-based resources through interventions, but in the seas there are no
inputs from man, only exploitation. In other production systems such as crops,
man can increase production by adding fertilizers, irrigation, pest management,
using appropriate species, genetically selected seed etc. These characteristics
of the marine fishery resources make it unique and difficult to fully understand,
monitor, manage and intervene. The only opportunity for man to intervene is
through management of the capture process. It is this uniqueness of the marine
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Mohan Joseph, M
Pillai, N G K
 
Date 2007
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/54/1/1.New_Mohan_Joseph.pdf
Mohan Joseph, M (2007) Outlook for marine fisheries research in India. In: Status and perspectives in marine fisheries research in India. CMFRI, Cochin, pp. 1-14. ISBN 81-901219 6-0