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Marine Fisheries in India: Outlook and Challenges ahead

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Title Marine Fisheries in India: Outlook and Challenges ahead
 
Creator Vivekanandan, E
 
Subject Fisheries Management
Marine Fisheries
 
Description India is endowed with a wide diversity of water resources, which sustain a large fisheries sector
in the country. India has a coastline of 8,118 km with an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
stretching over 2.02 million sq. km, and a continental shelf covering 0.53 million sq.km.
Fisheries have a very important role for food supply, nutritional security and livelihood in India.
The sector is one of the important revenue-earning and employment-opportunity sectors,
contributing significantly to the economy of the country. Marine fisheries in India are a shared
responsibility between the national and state governments. In a legal and constitutional sense,
state governments are responsible for waters inside the 12 nautical mile territorial limit (22 km)
while the Government of India (GOI) is responsible for waters between 12 nautical miles and
the country’s 200 nautical mile (370 km) EEZ.
Fisheries represent the best example of the exploitation of living natural resources. One of the
most important characteristics of capture fisheries is that the resources are a common property,
the access to which is free and open. Irrespective of the type of exploiters: artisanal fishers or
large fleet owners, their operation will not be limited until the zero profitability threshold is
reached. Hence, there is a need for a manager to intervene and regulate their activity. The
general objectives of fisheries management are to achieve nutritional security, maintain
sustainability of the resources, and ensure gainful employment and economic benefits. To
achieve this, a multidisciplinary approach involving biological, environmental, social,
economic and administrative instruments is necessary. The present status of marine fisheries in
India and the growing challenges call for early implementation of effective management
measures to gradually shift the focus from harvesting increasing volumes of fish to a more
holistic approach based on a long-term goal of maximising net economic, social and
environment benefits from sustainable fish production.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2022
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15701/1/Winter%20School%20on%20Recent%20Development%20in%20Taxonomic%20Techniques%20of%20Marine%20Fishes%20for%20Conservation%20and%20Sustainable%20Fisheries%20Management_2022_Vivekanandan%20E.pdf
Vivekanandan, E (2022) Marine Fisheries in India: Outlook and Challenges ahead. In: ICAR-CMFRI -Winter School on Recent Development in Taxonomic Techniques of Marine Fishes for Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries Management. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 1-14.