Sampling Design for the Estimation of Marine Fish Landings in India

The marine fisheries sector in India provide livelihood to nearly 4.0 million people and contributes to the food and nutritional security of the nation. With a coastline of over 8,000 km, an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of over 2 million sq km, is blessed with enormous diversity of species. Monitoring of the harvest of the diverse marine fishery resources of the country is being carried out regularly by CMFRI since its inception through a scientific data collection and estimation system from all along the Indian coast for deriving management measures to keep the harvest of the resources at sustainable levels