Perspectives and future vision for augmenting seafood export from India

India is bestowed with a long coastline of 8129 km, 0.5 million sq.km of continental shelf, 2.02 million sq.km of EEZ, and a catchable annual marine fishery potential of 4.41 million tons. India is the second largest fish-producing country in the world accounting for 7.56 percent of global production and 4th largest fish exporter. In 2021-22, India's total marine fish production stood at 3,05 million tons

Report on morphological abnormality in Scylla serrata

Morphological abnormalities most commonly reported in crabs are alterations in carapace (mainly number and shape of antero-lateral teeth), chelipeds, walking legs and shape of the abdomen. Uran, a fishing village in Raigad district of Maharashtra, supports a good fishery of Scylla serrata commonly known as giant mud crab, found in the coastal estuarine and mangrove areas

Sustainable development goals and fisheries sector: Progressing towards a sustainable future

With the present population trends, the global food demand is expected to rise 50% by 2030 and it becomes imperative to manage the resources thus to sustain this demand. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global call for action to achieve sustainable development by 2030 through a combined effort from all the countries. This Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development is intended to foster growth while safeguarding the environment and bringing out a safer, healthier, and more prosperous world by 2030. SDGs are centered on five P’s viz. people (wellbeing of all people), planet (protection of the earth’s ecosystems), prosperity (continued economic & technological growth), peace (securing peace) and partnership (improving international cooperation)

महाराष्ट्र की डोल जाल मात्स्यिकी

महाराष्ट्र की डोल जाल मात्स्यिक

Minimum Legal Size (MLS) for marine capture fisheries management in Maharashtra

The marine capture fisheries sector of Maharashtra has undergone tremendous change in terms of fishing patterns, fishing methods, spatial expansion of fishing grounds, multiday fishing and innovations in crafts and gears, among others. With the increasing demand for marine fish for consumption and other non-food utilization of fishes, exploitation of juvenile fishes is becoming more common. Exploitation of juveniles which causes ‘growth overfishing’ is a major concern as it affects the health of fish stocks and the ecosystem which impacts livelihood of fishers and causes much economic loss to all stakeholders

Plastic menace faced by fishers of Satpati, Maharashtra

Small conical stationary bag nets (Bokshi) are operated by artisanal fishers mostly in creeks, with strong tidal currents in certain regions of Maharashtra. The net is set using wooden pole (Khunt) driven at creek bottom against the flood or ebb tide. At Satpati, Bokshi nets are operated in the near shore creek for about 16 days in a month at a rate of 2 hauls per day. Here, fishermen are concerned about the increasing quantity of plastic debris entering their nets during fishing operations adversely affecting their livelihood

Purse seine fishing in Maharashtra

Purse seines are one of the important gears operated along the west coast of India for harvesting shoaling pelagic fishes, mostly oil sardine and mackerel. Purse seine fishing method invented to harvest the large shoal of pelagic fish in Maine, United State of America during 1830’s later is was spread to Norway, Sweden, Japan etc. In India purse seine was introduced on experimental basis in 1954 under Indo-Norwegian project off Quilon, Kerala and other attempt was made in Goa in 1957 when the territory was still ruled by Portuguese. The commercial purse seining taken up by the fishers in Karnataka during the mid 1970s was later adopted by the fishers in Kerala and Goa. In Maharashtra, fishers from the southern region (Ratnagiri and Sindhdurg) adopted purse seine fishing in late eighties and Mirkarwada emerged as a major base of operation for these purse seiners. In northern Maharashtra, fishers were mostly engaged in set bagnet (Dol nets) and trawl fishing until the late 1990s when a few trawl fishers shifted to purse seine fishing expecting better economic prospects

Catch composition and discards in set bagnets of Karanja Estuary, Raigad, Maharashtra

Dol netting is one of the major fishing methods used mainly by traditional fishermen of Maharashtra. Study of catch composition of dol nets operated in Karanja Estuary of Raigad district, Maharashtra was carried out during September 2016 - May 2017. A total of ten single-day dol-netters were selected for the purpose of this study. Fortnightly on-board sampling and questionnaire-based sampling were carried out to fulfil the objectives of the study. The number of fishing days per month ranged from 12-16 due to tide-based restrictions. Dol net catch comprised 50 species of fin fishes, 3 species of elasmobranchs, 13 species of shrimps, 10 species of crabs, 5 species of cephalopods, 2 species of jellyfish, 4 species of sea snakes, 1 species of lobster and 2 species of stomatopods. Major catch composition of dol nets recorded during the study included Acetes indicus, Arius maculatus, Charybdis callianassa , Chrysaora Caliparea, Coilia dussumieri , Harpadon nehereus , Lepturacanthus savala , Miyakella nepa, Mystus gulio and Parapenaeopsis sculptilis. Significant discards such as jellyfishes, juveniles of several fishes and plastics were recorded in the dol nets operated in the Karanja estuar

Record of the Trident cuttlefish from Maharashtra coast

Cuttlefish are important fishery resources landed mostly by mechanized trawlers operating along Maharashtra coast. Many new records of cuttlefishes have been reported from Maharashtra over the years

New record of right eyed deep-sea flat fish Poecilopsetta colorata Gunther, 1880 (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae) from the Arabian Sea

Here, the new record of deep-sea flat fish Poecilopsetta colorata Gunther, 1880 from Arabian Sea along the Indian coast is reported. The four individual specimens were collected from Sakthikulangara fish landing center (fishing off Kollam 8°56'60.78" N; 76°32'34.27" E) obtained from deep-sea bottom trawlers between 200 and 300 m depth along the southwest coast of India in February 2019 and the voucher specimen is deposited in the Marine Biodiversity Referral Museum at Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute. The genus Poecilopsetta Günther, 1880 is reported to have moderate diversity with 15 species inhabiting the deepsea waters. The intraspecies genetic distance in the COI gene of P. colorata retrieved from NCBI revealed 0.0 – 1.4 %; while interspecies distance ranged from 1.7 to 9.6 %