Estimation of marine fish production in India

The present exploitation of marine fisheries in india is limited to only a narrow belt of the continental shelf, harvesting about 1.35 million tones of fish.on the basis of this survey, fisheries data were collected on regular basis from 1950 by dividing the entire coastline of India into twelve homogenous survey zones-each zone put in charge of a well trained field staff for the purpose of collection of all basic data