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Market structure analysis of fish markets in coastal districts of West Bengal

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Title Market structure analysis of fish markets in coastal districts of West Bengal
 
Creator Roul, Subal Kumar
Raju, S S
Jeeva, Charles J
Shyam, S Salim
Mukherjee, Indranil
Pattnaik, Phalguni
 
Subject Fish Marketing
Fisheries Economics
Fisheries Management
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Description West Bengal with three coastal viz., North 24-Parganas,
South 24-Parganas and East Medinipur with 49 marine
fish landing centres (3.9% of total marine fish landing
centers of India), with about 81,067 fishermen families
comprising of 3.69 lakh fisher folks (9.5% of the total
fisher folk population of India) residing in 171 marine
fishing villages (5.7% of the total marine fishing villages of
India). Most of the fisher folk (about 70%) are traditional
fishermen (Marine Fisheries Census, 2016). A major
chunk (about 55,301 families) of the fisher population is
socio-economically vulnerable as they are below poverty
level and about 81% of the fishermen houses are Kutcha
houses and 19% are Pucca houses. Despite Covid 19
lockdowns and the devastating Amphan cyclone, in
the year 2020, the estimated marine fish landings was
2.60 lakh tonnes compared to 2.49 lakh tonnes in
2019 (CMFRI-Marine Fish Landings in India, 2020). The
coastal districts South 24 Parganas and East Medinipur
respectively contributed 49% and 51% of the total
marine fish landings, with contribution of pelagic (49%),
demersal (32%), crustacean (16%) and molluscan (3%)
resources. About 4,014 mechanized crafts and 6,564
motorized and 476 non-motorized crafts are engaged
in marine fishing activities in the state (Table 1). The
mechanized and motorized sectors contributed 89.7%
and 10.1% of the total landings respectively, while the
non-motorized sector contributed only 0.2%. Although
gill netters form 33% of the total fishing crafts in the
state, major portion (about 60%) of the marine resources
are landed by trawlers in West Bengal, mainly consisting
of anchovies, penaeid shrimps, croakers, Bombay duck,
pomfrets and Hilsa.
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2022
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/16624/1/MFIS%20253_Subal%20Kumar%20Roul_2022.pdf
Roul, Subal Kumar and Raju, S S and Jeeva, Charles J and Shyam, S Salim and Mukherjee, Indranil and Pattnaik, Phalguni (2022) Market structure analysis of fish markets in coastal districts of West Bengal. Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension Series, 253. pp. 26-30. ISSN 0254-380X