Prospects for open sea cage farming in India

Aquaculture has been recognized as a sunrise industry, registering an average annual growth of about 9.2 % since 1970 in comparison to capture fisheries (1.4 %) and terrestrial farmed meat production ( 2.8%) (FAO, 2004). Globally, the annual value of farmed fish has crossed US $ 50 billion, Surprisingly, the bulk of the aquaculture production comes from the developing low income food deficit countrie