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Small-scale Fisheries in India: An Appraisal

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Title Small-scale Fisheries in India: An Appraisal
 
Creator Jena, J K
George, Grinson
 
Subject Fish and Fisheries
 
Description The fishing practices followed in India are as diverse and complex as
diversity of fishes. On an average 700 species of fishes are harvested
annually from Indian coastal waters. Various craft-gear combinations are
used for harvesting these resources. The wide variety of fisheries resources
are targeted with specific gear and craft unlike monopolized individual
species-based targeted commercialized fishing activities practiced globally,
especially in temperate and sub-tropical coastal waters. Indian fisheries
sector is still heavily relying on less capital-intensive fishing. With the global
standards of commercialized fishing grown to much higher proportions, it
is possible to address the whole of Indian fisheries as small-scale, except for
the few industrial trawlers which operated earlier under the letter of permit
(LOP) scheme of the government of India. But with the definitions on smallscale
fishery (SSF) reiterated in various fora during different occasions by
United Nations, we have tried to define the small-scale fisheries in the
Indian context. Further, in this chapter we have provided information based
on the prevailing data sets on marine fishery by looking upon the various
aspects of SSF inclusive of resources vis-a-vis fleet size, climate related
perils, market related issues, its role in poverty alleviation, governance,
institutional framework for governance and pertinent issues in SSF.
 
Publisher SAARC Agriculture Centre
 
Date 2018
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13695/1/Small%20scale%20fisheries%20in%20South%20India_Grinson%20George_Small-scale%20Fisheries%20in%20India_An%20Appraisal.pdf
Jena, J K and George, Grinson (2018) Small-scale Fisheries in India: An Appraisal. In: Small-scale Fisheries in South Asia. SAARC Agriculture Centre, Bangladesh, pp. 15-41. ISBN ISBN: 978-984-34-6007-3