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Marine fish production and export marketing trend in Kerala - an economic analysis

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Title Marine fish production and export marketing trend in Kerala - an economic analysis
 
Creator Sathiadhas, R
Raghu, R
Kanakkan, A
Harshan, N K
 
Subject Fisheries Economics
Fish Marketing
 
Description Though the marine fish production has considerably increased
over the years .the economically backward traditional fishermen
in the nonmechanised sector has been highly marginalized with
enhanced mechanisation and motorisation of the fishing units.
Inspite of the increase in fleet size and decrease in the catch rates,
the mechanised and the motorised sectors still sustain mainly due
to the increase in the price of almost all the varieties of fishes. The
present study was carried out in Kerala coast during 1995-96, to
assess the sectoral contribution of marine fish production, export
trend of marine products and economics of prominent craft gear
combinations. Production trend clearly indicates a declining catch
of oil sardine and catfish in recent years and marked improvement
in the production of penaeid prawns and cephalopods. More than
20% of the marine products exported from India are from Kerala
and the forex earnings by the state during 1994-95 was Rs. 816.64
crores. The need for giving emphasis for product development and
value added products has been stressed to improve our forex earnings.
Almost all type of fishing units operating along Kerala coast
are found to be economically viable.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Contributor Pillai, V N
Menon, N G
 
Date 2000
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/4334/1/59.pdf
Sathiadhas, R and Raghu, R and Kanakkan, A and Harshan, N K (2000) Marine fish production and export marketing trend in Kerala - an economic analysis. In: Marine Fisheries Research and Management. CMFRI; Kochi, Kochi, pp. 876-894.