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Title Sustainable marine fisheries development
 
Creator Pillai, N G K
Ganga, U
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description Fisheries development concerns the processes leading to the progress in harvesting,
processing, marketing and utilizing the yields from the natural resources of aquatic animals and
plants for the benefit of the people and the country. Fishing has been one of the oldest methods
of gathering food adopted by people living close to seas / rivers and was a small scale,
sustenance level community based activity. Fisheries development has progressed considerably
since World War II and the estimates of world marine capture fisheries production was 84.2
5
million metric tons in the year 2005 (FAO, 2006). While in the past, fisheries resources far
exceeded the human capacity to exploit them, since the last two decades, technological changes
have paved the way for a situation where increasing annual catches of fish is no longer a simple
matter of increasing fishing effort. The rate of increase in fish production is increasingly
becoming difficult to maintain as a consequence of many of the stocks having reached or even
exceeded their limits of sustainable exploitation. Fish is a significant contributor to the livelihood,
nutritional, trade and economic security of countries and hence concerns are being voiced about
the rational development and management of fisheries where new terminologies like “sustainable
development” and “responsible fishing” are currently being widely used.
 
Publisher MANAGE, Hyderabad
 
Date 2008
 
Type Teaching Resource
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3741/1/ganga_study_mat%5B1%5D.pdf
Pillai, N G K and Ganga, U (2008) Sustainable marine fisheries development. [Teaching Resource]