Trends in world anchovy fisheries and India’s status

Abstract

Anchovies belonging to the (family Engraulidae) are the small pelagic fishes and constitute one of the most important-pelagic resources in the world. This forms about 12.8 % of the world fish production during the years 1996-2000. This group includes some of the world famous fisheries like the peruvian anchovita, Californian, Chilean and Japanese anchovies. Peruvian anchovita, Engraulis ringens is one of the most dynamic fisheries of the world and a classical case of how ,the fishery independent factors influence the resource. The economy of the country legends on the success of the anchovita fishery and failure of it puts the nation in red. Other important anchovies of the world are Japanese anchovy 1.28 million tonnes.