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Crustacean production in India

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Title Crustacean production in India
 
Creator Banerji, S K
 
Subject Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description The crustaceans form a very important fishery in India. The average production of marine
crustaceans based on the 10 years data from 1959 to 1968 was estimated at 84,734 tonnes and forms
about 10.89% of the annual production of all fish, estimated at 777, 733 tonnes. The above estimate of
crustacean landings does not include the production generated from the backwaters, paddy fields, lakes
and estuaries. Although no reliable estimates of production from these sources are available, rough estimates
of production from these sources are available. These estimates place the production from these sources
at more than 50% of the marine production. The production of marine crustaceans from all sources in
India would thus form more than 10% of the world production of crustaceans which in 1967 was estimated
at 1350,000 tonnes. Thus the total crustacean landing not only form a sizable part of the total marine fish
landing in India but it accounts for more than 10% of the world crustaceans production. This will indicate
the importance of the crustaceans fishery in India. If the increasing demand for prawns from U.S.A. and
other foreign countries is remembered, the importance of the Indian crustacean fishery will be understood
better because out of an average annual production of 84,734 tonnes of crustaceans as much as 81,699
tonnes on an average consist of prawns. The prawn production in India form about 13% of the total world
production of prawns and shrimps which in 1967 was estimated at 690,000 tonnes. If the substantial
production from backwaters paddy fields, lakes and estuaries etc., are also taken into consideration, the
percentage of Indian production to the world production of marine prawns will be about 18%.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Jones, S
 
Date 1969
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/603/1/Bull-Banerji_Bulletin_14-5.pdf
Banerji, S K (1969) Crustacean production in India. In: CMFRI Bulletin No.14, Prawn fisheries of India. CMFRI, Mandapam Camp, pp. 235-257.