Fringe Benefits

Abstract

The urgent need to increase the protein food resources of the world has been pushing the frontiers of fishing operations farther and farther out. During the last two decades the estimated total world fish production has more than doubled and according to recent reports tho world's catch has gone up by five per cent during the last year alone. The tempo continues $ unabated and this has created genuine doubts 3 about the future because it is now known chat the resources of the sea are not inexhaustible as it was believed earlier. To meet the increasing demand for fish exploitation of the stocks in the deep sea and open ocean is imperative.