Major fishing nation of the world, major fishing region,

present trend of marine capture fisheries

World fisheries statistics

India fisheries statistics

Present trend of marine capture fisheries • Total capture fisheries production: According to final data, total global capture production of 91.3

million tonnes in 2012 is, slightly below the 93.7million tonnes of 2011. when the highly variable anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) catches are excluded.

However, these recent results should not raise expectations of significant catch increases. Rather, they represent a continuation of the generally stable situation reported previously. Variations in production by country, fishing area and species are buffered at the global level through compensatory developments in different fisheries.

In 1998, extremely low anchoveta catches reduced the total catch to 85.7 million tonnes. Thereafter, the widest deviations from the annual average of 91.1 million tonnes in the best and worst years (2011 and 2003 at 93.7 and 88.3 million tonnes, respectively) have been only about 3 percent.

World marine capture production

• Global fishery production in marine waters was 82.6

million tonnes in 2011 and 79.7 million tonnes in

2012 (74.3 and 75.0 million tonnes excluding

anchoveta).

• In these two years, 18 countries caught more than an

average of one million tonnes per year, accounting for

more than 76 percent of global marine catches .

• Eleven of these countries are in Asia (including also

the Russian Federation, which fishes much more in

the Pacific than in the Atlantic).

Major fishing area • FAO Major Fishing Areas For statistical purposes, 27 major fishing

areas have been internationally established to date.

• These comprise eight major inland fishing areas covering the inland

waters of the continents, nineteen major marine fishing areas covering

the waters of the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans, with

their adjacent seas.

• The major fishing areas, inland and marine, are listed below by two

digit codes and their names.

• The fishing area 07 ("Former USSR area Inland waters") referred to the area that was formerly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Starting with the data for 1988, information for each new independent Republic is shown separately.

• The new independent Republics are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (statistics assigned to the fishing area "Asia Inland waters") and Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine (statistics assigned to the fishing area "Europe Inland waters").

Indian marine capture fisheries India has a coastal length of 8118 km (some authors mention as 8129 km)

spread over nine Coastal States and four Union Territories.

The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of India extending up to 200 Nautical

Miles (372 km) has an extent of 2.02 million km2, of which 0.86 million

km2 are on the west coast, 0.56 million km2 on the east coast and 0.60

million km2 around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The continental shelf

of India has a spread of approximately 0.53 million km2.

Marine capture fisheries production has been around 2.5 million tonnes

annually. The rate of expansion of marine fisheries in India has been slow

due to continued adherence to traditional fishing methods and delay in

extending fishing activities to deep waters.

India contributes more than one fourth of the landings of the Indian Ocean

and more than half of the landings of the Western Indian Ocean.

Coastal Length, Continental Shelf Area, Number of Landing Centres &

Fishing Villages. The following table shows the details of coastal length,

continental shelf, number of landing centres and number of fishing villages

of maritime states and union territories of India.

Major marine fish producing state/union territory (in 000 tonn)

Marine fish landing by spp. Coastal state and union

territories, 2012 in india (in tonn)

404289

277484

187821 177228 163913

114839

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

400000

450000

Marine fish landing by spp. Coastal state and union

territories, 2012 in india(in tonn)

0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000 andhra pradesh

odisha

tamilnadu

west bengal

A & N island

puducherry

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

160000

180000

200000

0

186998

99172

8789

40867

13649

93107

2807 4144 10474 8710

149659

8620

45089

1664

29376

46197

18138

75437

42046

58493

283

32315

1629 8968

290 87 2955 505 460 139

1285

gujarat karnataka kerala maharashtra goa lakshadweep daman & diu