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History of marine research in Lakshadweep

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2627/
 
Title History of marine research in Lakshadweep
 
Creator James, P S B R
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description The Lakshadweep consisting of a number
of islands, islets and submerged reefs lie scattered
in the vast Arabian sea on the west coast of India.
This geographic isolation has been a major
impediment to maintain status quo with the
progress and developmental activities on the
mainland. Of recent, the stress has been to
achieve a conduce growth of the economy of the
islanders so as to improve their standard of
living. Besides agriculture the traditional source
of livelihood of the islanders is fishing which
plays an important role in the economy. Since
the land area is limited, the scope for large scale
development of land based industries and agriculture
is meagre, the future programmes have
to be centred on the exploitation of marine living
resources. Ever since human settlement in these
islands a variety of marine living resources
available in the lagoons and in the surrounding
oceanic waters have been in different state of
exploitation, mostly in a primitive way. Significant
strides have been made in the field of
fisheries thanks to the various developmental
activities carried out by the Department of
Fisheries, Lakshadweep. The Central Marine
Fisheries Research Institute also has played a
key role in research, development and management
of the fisheries. Now, the various activities
in research, development and management are
anxious to break out of the introversion displayed
so far.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Suseelan, C
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2627/1/Article_05.pdf
James, P S B R (1989) History of marine research in Lakshadweep. CMFRI Bulletin, 43. pp. 91-25.