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Appraisal of the Marine Fisheries of Gujarat

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Title Appraisal of the Marine Fisheries of Gujarat
 
Creator Balan, K
Sivaraman, P
George, K P
Ramachandran, M
 
Subject CMFRI Special Publications
Fish landing
Marine Fisheries
 
Description Among the maritime states of India, Gujarat, with its 11 maritime
districts, namely Kutch, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli. Bhavanagar,
Ahamedabad, Kheda, Bharuch, Surat and Valsad, has the longest coastline
and, the continental edge in this part of the Arabian sea being farther
from shore than in any other part of the country, has the widest shelf
area. The coastline of about 1640 km consists of 173 landing centres.
The shelf area covers about 1,64,000 sq.km, of which 64,800 sq.km falls
in the depth range 0-60 m, which can be exploited by traditional as well
as mechanised craft. The state also has excellent estuarine potentials.
Despite the State's thus having an excellent scope for the marine fisheries
development, it ranks only the fourth place in regard to the contribution
to the all-India marine fish production, the annual average landings being
2.21 lakh tonnes. And, with regard to the involvement of the costal rural
population in the marine fishery activities, Gujarat ranks lowest. The state
has a marine fishermen population of only 1.52 lakhs, of which hardly
37000 are engaged in actual fishing and allied occupations.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 1987
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3352/1/Special_Publication_No_38.pdf
Balan, K and Sivaraman, P and George, K P and Ramachandran, M (1987) Appraisal of the Marine Fisheries of Gujarat. CMFRI Special Publication (38). pp. 1-51.