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Small Scale Cage Farming and Community Development in Fishing Villages

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10691/
 
Title Small Scale Cage Farming and Community
Development in Fishing Villages
 
Creator Thomas, Sujitha
Dineshbabu, A P
 
Subject Fishing Villages
Cage culture
Mariculture
 
Description The estuarine fishery which is one of the subsistence fishery of Indian coast is on a decline due to salinization
of estuaries. Salinization is occurring mainly of two reasons, one the anthropological interventions to divert
fresh water for irrigation and domestic and industrial use and the second one is the natural cause, due to slow
process of climate change inflicted sea level rise which make most of the estuaries of India to remain more and
more saline water dominated over the period of time. The impact of this is being felt by the fishermen living
along the estuarine coast who are being deprived of livelihood. It is at this juncture the small scale cage farming
is introduced along the coastal villages to augment the fish production and also as an alternate livelihood option
for coastal fishers. There is scope for culturing euryhaline species in saline creeks and estuaries by installation of
small cages along the coast the Indian coast.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2015
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10691/1/32.%20Sujitha.pdf
Thomas, Sujitha and Dineshbabu, A P (2015) Small Scale Cage Farming and Community Development in Fishing Villages. [Teaching Resource]