The prevailing situation in the fisheries sector in many
countries of the world can be briefly stated as (1) insufficient
information on fish resources, (2) diminishing stock and (3)
conflicting uses of coastal areas and types of fishing. Since
there is free accessibility to the exploitable resources in the sea,
the natural tendency is to make more and more without regard
to the real availability. The need for fishery management
assumed importance in recent years on account of the uncontrolled,
or rather reckless, exploitation of the resources in
many countries [leading to depletion of stock. Although
according to available information the level of exploitation of
the fishery resources in our country in general is far below the
optimum level, there seems to be too much concentration in,
certain areas and in respect to certain specks which perhaps is a
reflection of the lack of fishery management policies or their
implementation
