The paper deals with some of the recent achievements made towards finding out ways and means of proper
handling, transportation, preservation by different methods of processing, economic utilization of the
byproducts and equitable distribution of our fishery products. Hygienic methods of handling fresh fish
on board, proper icing procedures, improvements in existing containers and ' evolution of cheap and rew~
ones including methods for long distance transportation, reported recently, have been briefly reviewed.
Procedures for preservation of our important food fishes and shell fishes by freezing, canning and
dehydration including curing have been summarised. Salient features of utilization of fish body and liver
oils for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes, conversion of cheap varieties of trash fish into fish protein
concentrate for human consumption, bacteriological peptones and speciality products like fish flakes, soup
powder, fish pastes, etc., and economic usage of wastes from processing factories for fish meal ar.d isolation
of valuable chemical compounds, methods for which have been evolved recently, are reported
