Status of marine fisheries in India - Winter School onudImpact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

摘要

Marine fisheries sector in India plays a significant role in Indian economy and provides livelihoodudsecurity to about 3.5 million coastal rural folk living in 3200 marine fishing villages. The substantialudgrowth of the sector is due to innovative and efficient fishing practices, government policies, well developedudharvest and post-harvest infrastructure and increased demand for marine fish products in the domestic andudinternational markets. The growing demand resulted in fishing effort intensification, extension of fishingudgrounds, increase in overall length of fishing boats, holding capacity of the trawlers, fishing effort in termsudof fishing hours through multi-day fishing by the mechanized sector and enhanced fishing operations by theudmotorized sector. Multiday fishing that came into vogue in the 90s. The production, which reached 2.7udmillion t in 1997, has remained almost invariant. The asymptotic production level in all the regions ofudexploitation indicates a little scope for further increase. Thus, there is an urgent need to ensure sustainabilityudof resources through appropriate management interventions as envisaged in the FAO Code of Conduct forudResponsible Fisheries and also in the context of global warming and climate change.