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Indian Fisheries: The Setting

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Title Indian Fisheries: The Setting
 
Creator Sathiadhas, R
Katiha, Pradeep K
Shyam, S Salim
Narayanakumar, R
 
Subject Fisheries Extension
Fisheries Economics
 
Description Indian fisheries and aquaculture is an important sector of agriculture, providing
employment, food and nutritional security particularly to the rural poor and better access
to protein rich food for all. It is also contributing to the agricultural exports and engaging
about fourteen million people in different activities. With diverse resources ranging from deep
seas to lakes in the mountains and more than 10 per cent of the global biodiversity in terms
of fish and shellfish species, the country has shown continuous and sustained increments
in fish production since independence. With support of government initiatives and policies,
various innovations by scientific community, support from private industries and companies,
fishermen, farmers, NGOs and self help groups, the sector has evolved from a modest,
traditional and subsistence level to a sophisticated and modern enterprise. The country now
occupies the third position in total world production and second in aquaculture production.
‘Fish for All forever’ necessitates the sustained development of the sector to cater nutritional
needs of millions of people in future. India with vast water resources ranging from seas to cold
hill streams and over 10 per cent of the fish biodiversity on earth has high scope for producing
fish by utilizing the untapped potentials of inland and marine sector.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2014
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10320/1/1.pdf
Sathiadhas, R and Katiha, Pradeep K and Shyam, S Salim and Narayanakumar, R (2014) Indian Fisheries: The Setting. In: Livelihood Status of Fishers in India. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 3-16.