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Title Oceanic Fisheries
 
Creator Silas, E G
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
 
Description India is passing through a very critical period of food crisis and consequently the
necessity of exploring various fields of natural resources to augment present production
weighs heavily in the minds of our Planners. The situation calls for a more rapid transition
from the present stage to a more dynamic practical stage in all facets of agricultural development
and this applies equally to the utilisation of renewable protein resources of the ocean-^
in short, the marine fisheries. The oceanic fishery resources of our high seas and the Indian
Ocean at large have been well recognised by other countries, notably Japan which is at
present engaged in large scale fishing for tunas and related fishes, and billfishes (marlins,
spearfishes, sailfish, and swordfish) throughout the length and breadth of the Indian Ocean.
Even fishing boats from Taiwan are operating in the Eastern Indian Ocean and more than
once have they been apprehended in our territorial waters in the Andaman Nicobar Islands.
Russian vessels have started operating in the western section of the Indian Ocean from the
Black Sea ports. Of the countries bordering the Indian Ocean, Australia and the Union of
South Africa are rapidly developing their oceanic fisheries. India though favourably situated
has yet to make a beginning in this field on a commercial scale as we have not ventured
beyond our traditional fishing grounds lying mostly within fifteen kilometres off our coastline.
 
Date 1967
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5557/1/8.pdf
Silas, E G (1967) Oceanic Fisheries. In: Souvenir 20th Anniversary Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, 3 February 1967, Mandapam.