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Utilization of the potential Marine Fishery Resources of India

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Title Utilization of the potential Marine Fishery Resources of India
 
Creator Nair, M R
Govindan, T K
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description India's potential marine fishery resources, which have been projected at 4.5 million tonnes per annum, is thrice the current
average production. The most important methods of utilization of fish in the country at present are in fresh condition and
By salt-curing and drying, which together use up 87% of the catches. Of the remaining, 5% each is utilized frozen for export
And for reduction into fishmeal. The rest is utilized for canning and for miscellaneous purposes like extraction of oil, manure
Etc. With the introduction of more efficient craft and gear and Modern methods of harvesting worked out by our Research
Institutions, a major portion of our potential resources, if not all, is likely to be netted in the near future. It then becomes
binding on our part to make the best use of this natural bounty without any wastage whatsoever. This latter aspect has been
Fully tackled and solved by recent researches carried out on post harvest Technology, the more salient points of which are discussed
in this paper.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3300/1/Spl_30-6.pdf
Nair, M R and Govindan, T K (1987) Utilization of the potential Marine Fishery Resources of India. CMFRI Special Publication, 30. pp. 88-98.