Investigations on fish and fisheries of Cochin backwaters in and around southwest monsoon period.

The fisheries sector has been accorded an important role in India's economic development plans. With the restrictions in the areas of exploitations of the marine fisheries by declaration of the Exclusive Economic Zone, and the need for meeting additional supplies of fish and earnings of foreign exchange, most of the countries have directed their attention and interests to brackishwater fish farming. India's potential brackishwater area for culture, based on various estimates is about 9 lakh ha of which the present utilization is a meagre 2.91%