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Deepsea fishing in Indian waters

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Title Deepsea fishing in Indian waters
 
Creator Devaraj, M
 
Subject Fishing
Fish and Fisheries
 
Description The development of Indian marine fIsheries
since the early 60s from a traditional,
subsistence oriented one into an industrial
fisheries was quite substantial. This change got
accelerated mainly in the mechanised era of
the marine fishery sector. Although with the
declaration of the EEZ, an area of 2 million
sq. km. came into existence in 1977, there has
never been a commercial deepsea fishing worth
mentioning. However deepwater trawling
conducted by two Mexican trawlers (24 m
OAL) imported from the USA in 1972 has
paved the way for a humble beginning in the
deepsea fishing operations. Gradually by
1982-83 about 11 0 chartered and joint venture
deepsea fishing vessels began fishing operations
and almost without exception, they exploited
mostly the inshore grounds upto 50 m and
rarely upto 100 m. But once the depth limitations
beyond the 80 m depth line for offshore fIshing
operations was enforced in 1983, almost all these
chartered vessels left the country.
 
Publisher Aquaculture Foundation of India & The Fisheries Technocrats Forum
 
Date 1996
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/7795/1/679._Dev.pdf
Devaraj, M (1996) Deepsea fishing in Indian waters. Proceedings of the Seminar on Fisheries - A Multibillion Dollar Industry, Madras, Aug 17-19, 1995. pp. 35-41.