Overview of marine fisheries of India

Najmudeen, T M (2023) Overview of marine fisheries of India. In: International Workshop cum Training on Fisheries and Aquaculture: African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO). CMFRI Training Manual Series No. 35/2023 (35). ICAR- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 12-22. ISBN 978-93-82263-62-3

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Abstract

India, with an extensive EEZ of 2.02 million square kilometres, and a coastline of 8129 km, has an estimated marine fishery potential of 5.31 million tonnes annum-1 (CMFRI-FSI-DoF, 2020). The marine fisheries sector in India contributes significantly to the food and nutritional requirements of its people, supports the livelihood of nearly 3.8 million coastal population by providing income and employment (Sathianandan et al., 2021), and earns an annual foreign exchange worth US$8.1 billion through marine exports (MPEDA, 2023). In recent years, the global marine capture fish production declined from 84.4 million t in 2018 to 78.8 million tonnes in 2020 (FAO, 2022). India ranks sixth in global marine capture fisheries production with a contribution of 4.7% in 2020. Since the early 2000s, global marine capture production has almost plateaued out, hovering around 80 million tonnes (Fig. 1) with an average annual production of 81.1 million tonnes during 2018- 2020 (FAO, 2022). India’s total marine capture production was 3.49 million tonnes in 2022, landed by a fishing fleet of 1,66,333. The gross value of India’s marine fish production at the point of first sale is Rs. 582.47 million and that of the retail point is estimated at Rs. 798.67 million in 2022 (FRAEED, CMFRI, 2023). The quantity of marine exports from India in 2022 was 1.74 million tonnes worth Rs. 639.7 billion, which is estimated at 3.5% of the total exports from India. The share of marine fisheries in the country’s GDP is 1.1%, which is about 5.4% of the total agricultural GDP of India. over the span of the last 70 years, marine fish catches in the country increased considerably from 0.6 to 3.5 million tonnes

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Marine Fisheries; India
Subjects:	Marine Fisheries
Divisions:	CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Finfish Fisheries Division Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Finfish Fisheries Division CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Finfish Fisheries Division Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Marine Capture > Finfish Fisheries Division
Depositing User:	Arun Surendran
Date Deposited:	01 Jan 2024 10:41
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2024 04:55
URI:	http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/17860

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