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Depleted and Collapsed Marine Fish Stocks along Southwest Coast of India – A Simple Criterion to Assess the Status

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Title Depleted and Collapsed Marine Fish
Stocks along Southwest Coast of
India – A Simple Criterion to Assess
the Status
 
Creator Mohamed, K S
Sathianandan, T V
Zacharia, P U
Asokan, P K
Krishnakumar, P K
Abdurahiman, K P
Veena, S
Durgekar, N Raveendra
 
Subject Conservation
Stock Assessment
 
Description India’s marine fishery has grown from a subsistence level to an
industrial one. From a meagre 0.6 million tonnes in 1950s it has crossed
3.0 million tonnes in 2008. Kerala, and to a lesser extent, Karnataka have
been the major contributors to the marine fish production of the country
(having 12% of the total coastline and contributing 30-35% of the
production). Mechanization of the fishing fleets has focussed increased
effort on the fish stocks in the region (southwest coast), and consequently,
many stocks are not as abundant as they were before. The intense
exploitation of commercial marine species along these coasts has
reportedly led to threats of species loss. So far no comprehensive study
has been made to assess the health of Indian marine fish stocks with
respect to depletion and collapse, and therefore, no restoration or stock
rebuilding plans are available. Most of the world’s most valuable fish stocks
are either fully exploited or overexploited (FAO, 2007). The 25% of the
stocks that remain underexploited tend to comprise of low-value species.
 
Publisher Society of Fisheries Technologists
 
Contributor Meenakumari, B
Boopendranath, M R
Edwin, Leela
Sankar, T V
Gopal, Nikita
Ninan, George
 
Date 2010
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7855/1/sunil1.pdf
Mohamed, K S and Sathianandan, T V and Zacharia, P U and Asokan, P K and Krishnakumar, P K and Abdurahiman, K P and Veena, S and Durgekar, N Raveendra (2010) Depleted and Collapsed Marine Fish Stocks along Southwest Coast of India – A Simple Criterion to Assess the Status. In: Coastal Fishery Resources of India; Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation. Society of Fisheries Technologists, Cochin, pp. 67-76.