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Status of marine fisheries in India - Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

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Title Status of marine fisheries in India - Winter School on
Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008
 
Creator Srinath, M
Pillai, N G K
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description Marine fisheries sector in India plays a significant role in Indian economy and provides livelihood
security to about 3.5 million coastal rural folk living in 3200 marine fishing villages. The substantial
growth of the sector is due to innovative and efficient fishing practices, government policies, well developed
harvest and post-harvest infrastructure and increased demand for marine fish products in the domestic and
international markets. The growing demand resulted in fishing effort intensification, extension of fishing
grounds, increase in overall length of fishing boats, holding capacity of the trawlers, fishing effort in terms
of fishing hours through multi-day fishing by the mechanized sector and enhanced fishing operations by the
motorized sector. Multiday fishing that came into vogue in the 90s. The production, which reached 2.7
million t in 1997, has remained almost invariant. The asymptotic production level in all the regions of
exploitation indicates a little scope for further increase. Thus, there is an urgent need to ensure sustainability
of resources through appropriate management interventions as envisaged in the FAO Code of Conduct for
Responsible Fisheries and also in the context of global warming and climate change.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 2008
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5288/1/1.pdf
Srinath, M and Pillai, N G K (2008) Status of marine fisheries in India - Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008. [Teaching Resource]