Report of the working group for revalidating the potential of fishery resources in the Indian EEZ

Abstract

The potential marine fishery resources of the Indian EEZ were estimated in 1991 as about 3.9 million tonnes by a Working Group of Experts constituted by the Government of India. Ministry of Agriculture, on the basis of data and information from exploratol)' fishery surveys, exploited fisheries resources and other data sources upto 1987. Since 1991, a considerable amount of data on fisheries resources through exploratory surveys. commercial fishing operations surveys on the exploited fisheries based on fish landings coastal subsistence fisheries and fishery oceanographic research have become available. Some information has also become available from fishing vessels under Charter. Joint venture, on Lease Agreements and from international data sources on highly migratory pelagic stocks.