Policy issues for marine fisheries management in India

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Fisheriescontributeabout 1 per cent of India'sGDP,whichforms about 4.12 percent of the agricultural GDP (2003-04).The sector provides employment to about281akhpeople in its primary,secondary and tertiary segments.Economic evaluation of marine fish landings at 2004 price level is about Rs.13,019 crore at first sales and Rs.22,653 crore at last sales.Surpassing the domestic marketing pattem, the export market is still wide as crustaceans and cephalapods alone generates 50 per cent of the gross earnings.An overview of the price movements of food products for the last four decades reveals that fish and fishery products displayed the highest increase in price level.The private capital investment in marine fishery sector also recorded phenomenal growth both in harvest and post-harvest sectors primarily oriented towards export market.The overcapitalisation of fishing fleets, excess capacity of export-oriented processing plants, disguised unemployment, inter and intra sectoral marginalisation,

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