About the Book: Emerging Trends in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Indian fisheries and aquaculture is an important sector of food production,
providing nutritional security to the food basket, contributing to the
agricultural exports and engaging about fourteen million people in different
activities. With diverse resources ranging from deep seas to lakes in the
mountains and more than 10 per cent of the global biodiversity in terms of fish
and shellfish species, the country has shown continuous and sustained increments
in fish production since independence. Constituting about 4.4 per cent of the
global fish production, the sector contributes to 1.1 per cent of the GDP and
4.7 per cent