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Impact of environmental threats on marine fishery resources of coastal Kerala: an economic assessment

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Title Impact of environmental threats on marine fishery resources of coastal Kerala: an economic assessment
 
Creator Sathiadhas, R
Narayanakumar, R
Najmudeen, T M
Jayan, K N
Antony Joseph, M
Alagarswami, K
Rajan, Jeny
 
Subject Marine Fisheries
Fisheries Economics
 
Description Competition and commercialization in marine fisheries have generated
discrepancies and imbalances in marine ecology, sustainable production and
distributive justice. The private capital investment made on crafts-gears in
capture fisheries does not any way compensate the social cost of overexploitation
of certain resources, uncontrolled juvenile fishing and discards. The common
property nature of marine fisheries coupled with market driven catching
strategies and technological changes led to overexploitation of varieties such
as elasmobranchs, catfish and goatfish along Kerala coast. However, the
analysis of production trends for a period of four decades reveals increasing
trends in the landings of species such as oilsardine, anchovies, lizardfish,
perches, carangids, tunnies, barracudas, flat fish and cephalapods. The study
on the environmental economics of inshore fishery resource utilisation of coastal
Kerala has been undertaken in four southern Districts (Ernakulam, Alappuzha,
Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram) during the year 2001-2003 with focus on
environmental hotspots of industrial pollution and sea erosion along with details
of economic loss of juvenile fishing by trawl fisheries.
 
Date 2006
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5677/1/Impact_of_environmental_threats_on_marine_fishery_resources_of_coastal_Kerala.pdf
Sathiadhas, R and Narayanakumar, R and Najmudeen, T M and Jayan, K N and Antony Joseph, M and Alagarswami, K and Rajan, Jeny (2006) Impact of environmental threats on marine fishery resources of coastal Kerala: an economic assessment. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Improved sustainability of fish production systems and appropriate technologies for utilisation, 16-18 March 2005, Kochi.