Fisheries Management for Sustainable Livelihoods, Chennai.
Abstract
This is a discussion paper on the identification of Fisheries Management Units (FMU) in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
The choice of fisheries management units or FMUs depends on many factors like fisheries resource configuration,
structure of the fisheries, availability of information, institutional aspects and the scale or level at which one can
make a significant contribution to the management goals and objectives. Six possible FMU were identified based
on various groupings such as fish resources, gear based, fleet based, geographical, harvesters and subsectors, and
combinations of these as the seventh FMU. The prospects of each type of FMU in the TN & P context are discussed
in detail in this paper
