Fishery Resources Assessment - A Challenge

Among the living resources, fishery resource in India plays a very dominant role in all facets of national development. Being a renewable and a very valuable resource it demands attention from all quarters for its rational exploitation and judicious management for reaping sustainable yields. The marine product exports in 1997 have almost reached the level of Rs. 4000 crores, a tremendous progress indeed! Thus having been established as an important foreign exchange earner, marine fish landings, however, fluctuates around 2.6 million tonnes per annum