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Socio-economic Impact of Sea cucumber Conservation in Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Region of Tamil Nadu

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Title Socio-economic Impact of Sea cucumber Conservation in Palk
Bay and Gulf of Mannar Region of Tamil Nadu
 
Creator Johnson, B
Asha, P S
Ranjith, L
Vivekanandan, E
Subin, C S
Sheik Mohamed, M
 
Subject Fisheries Economics
Fisheries Extension
Sea Cucumber
Echinoderms
 
Description Sea cucumber is one of the important marine resources and its fishery is a source of income to coastal communities. It
contributes to poverty alleviation for more than three million fishers globally. The indiscriminate exploitation for this
lucrative trade would have resulted in overexploitation leading to endangering of the species in the wild. The blanket ban on
collection and trade on sea cucumber in India was imposed during 2002 by listing this organism in Schedule I category of the
Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. The present study aimed to analyze and understand the impacts of listing on the
conservation of sea cucumber resources in the wild and on the livelihood of the fishers. The enforcement of ban has affected
the livelihood of thousands of fishermen families involved in sea cucumber fishing. There was a loss in their regular income
as they were not able to do other fishing activities due to lack of capacity for investment. The fishers opined that they want the
ban to be lifted at least for a few commercially important species. They are agreeable to follow regulatory measures like size
restriction on fishing of undersized sea cucumbers, exclusion of breeding stock from fishing, restraining from use of
destructive gears, exclusive fishing ban period for stock replenishment, sea ranching and stock enhancement programmes
for conservation of the resource through participatory co-management principles.
 
Date 2020
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14806/1/Indian%20Journal%20of%20Extension%20Education_2020_Johnson%20B_Sea%20cucumber.pdf
Johnson, B and Asha, P S and Ranjith, L and Vivekanandan, E and Subin, C S and Sheik Mohamed, M (2020) Socio-economic Impact of Sea cucumber Conservation in Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Region of Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Extension Education, 56 (1). pp. 154-158.