Top candidate species in marine capture production
Indian Marine Fisheries Resources
Different Marine Fish Producing State Of India(CMFRI 2020)
Major Five Species/Groups With Their Contribution (Lakh Tonnes) Towards Total Marine Fish Landings In India (2019 & 2020)
2. Global overview
At the time of writing (March 2020), the COVID-19 pandemic has affected
most countries in the world, with severe impacts on the global economy and
the food production and distribution sector, including fisheries and
aquaculture. Scientific developments of the last 50 years have led to a much
improved understanding of the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, and to
global awareness of the need to manage them in a sustainable manner.
Twenty-five years after the adoption of the Code of Conduct for Responsible
Fisheries (the Code; FAO, 1995), the importance of utilizing fisheries and
aquaculture resources responsibly is now widely recognized and prioritized.
3. Global fish production (2018)
Total global fish production - 179 MT – 401 billion USD
Global capture fish production- 96.4 MT – 151 billion USD
Global aquaculture production- 82.1 MT – 250 billion USD
Human consumption - 156 MT
Remaining – 22 MT Non-food use (Mainly for fish meal and fish oil)
Per capita consumption – 20.5 kg
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5. Top Fish Producer FAO SOFIA Report(2020)
China alone produce - 35%
Asia (excluding China) – 34%
America – 14%
Europe – 10%
Africa – 7%
Oceanica – 1%
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China
Asia (excluding
China)
America
Europe
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Total fish production has seen important increases in all the continents in the last
few decades.
Except Europe (with a gradual decrease from the late 1980s, but recovering slightly
in the last few years)
Americas (with several ups and downs since the peak of the mid-1990s, mainly due
to fluctuations in catches of anchoveta),
Whereas it has almost doubled during the last 20 years in Africa and Asia
7. Global food fish consumption increased at an average annual rate of 3.1 percent from 1961 to
2017, a rate almost twice that of annual world population growth (1.6 percent) for the same
period, and higher than that of all other animal protein foods (meat, dairy, milk, etc.), which
increased by 2.1 percent per year.
Per capita food fish consumption grew from 9.0 kg (live weight equivalent) in 1961 to 20.5 kg in
2018, by about 1.5 percent per year.
In developed countries, apparent fish consumption increased from 17.4 kg per capita in 1961 to
peak at 26.4 kg per capita in 2007, and gradually declined thereafter to reach 24.4 kg in 2017.
In developing countries, apparent fish consumption significantly increased from 5.2 kg per capita
in 1961 to 19.4 kg in 2017, at an average annual rate of 2.4 percent.
In 2017, fish consumption accounted for 17 percent of the global population’s intake of animal
proteins, and 7 percent of all proteins consumed.
World Fish Utilization And Apparent Consumption (FAO SOFOA 2020)
8. Among these, the least developed countries (LDCs) increased their consumption from 6.1 kg in
1961 to 12.6 kg in 2017, at an average annual rate of 1.3 percent.
This rate has increased significantly in the last 20 years, reaching 2.9 percent per year, because of
expanding fish production and imports.
In low-income food-deficit countries (LIFDCs), fish consumption increased from 4.0 kg in 1961
to 9.3 kg in 2017, at a stable annual rate of about 1.5 percent.
13. Status Of Marine Fisheries In India
Indian marine fisheries had made tremendous progress, with the annual fish production increasing from 0.5 million
tonnes in 1950 to 3.72 million tonnes in 2019-20.
Among the four regions of the Indian coastline, the south-west region and the north-west region contributed almost
equally towards marine fish landings in the country.
The next major contribution was from the Southeast region comprising the maritime states of Tamil Nadu,
Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh with 11.91 lakh tonnes which accounted for 31.9% of the total landings.
The least landing was from northeast region with 3.21 lakh tonnes.
Gujarat retained the top position among the states with 7.01 lakh tonnes which is 18.8% of the total landings in
India, followed by Tamil Nadu which landed 5.83 lakh tonnes
14. Kerala and Maharashtra are the other top states with contributions of 4.75 lakh tonnes and 4.43 lakh tonnes
respectively.
An overall decreasing trend in catches has seen in India i.e. 38.53 lakh tonnes to 37.27 lakh tonnes in 2018-
19 and 2019-20 respectively.
The increase in marine landings are from the states and Union territories of Gujrat, D & Nagar Haveli and
Daman and Diu, Tamil Nadu.
There is a decrease in marine landings from the states and union territories of Maharashtra, Goa,
Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa and the rest remains constant.
15. Marine fish production (2019-20) - 3.727 mt
India have a coastline of 8118 km
The exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 2.02
million km2 (0.86 million km2 on the west
coast, 0.56 million km2 on the east coast and
0.60 km2 around the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands).
Total fish landing centres consist of 1548 no’s,
Major fishing harbours 7 no’s
Minor fishing harbours 62 no’s.
Indian Marine Fisheries Resources
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2019 And 2020 (tonne)
19. Major Five Species/Groups With Their Contribution (Lakh Tonnes) Towards Total
Marine Fish Landings In India (2019 & 2020)
2020
2019
20. Major marine fishery resources in the landings in 2020 and their contributions :
Lesser sardines 0.216 million tonnes accounting for 7.91% of the national total (0.170 million tonnes with
4.78% contribution in 2019).
Indian mackerel 0.180 million tonnes with 6.61% contribution (0.162 million tonnes and 4.55% in 2019).
Penaeid shrimp 0.157 million tonnes with 5.74% contribution (0.195 million tonnes and 5.46% in 2019.
Ribbonfishes 0.144 million tonnes with 5.27% contribution (0.219 million tonnes and 6.14% in 2019).
Threadfin breams 0.123 million tonnes with 4.51% contribution (0.153 million tonnes and 4.30% in 2019).
The Oil sardine (Sardinella longiceps) which used to be at the first position few years ago moved to the 10th
position with only 0.083 million tonnes as the landings in 2020 (3.05% of national total).
Among the major 10 resources, compared to the landings in 2019, the reduction percentage was 44.04% for
Non-penaeid shrimp, 42.76% for Oil sardine and 34.30% for Ribbonfishes.
Lesser sardines, Scads and Indian mackerel landings showed increase by 26.65, 16.22 and 11.27%
respectively.
22. Gear wise contribution for marine resource exploitation
In 2020, the major fishing gear that contributed to the fishery was multiday trawlnets
(33%) followed by mechanized purseseines (28%), mechanized Dolnets (20%) and
mechanized gillnets (8%). Though trawl nets contributed highest in terms of quantity,
the highest catch per unit was observed in mechanized purseseines, 1943.7kg/unit. This
was followed by multiday trawlnets 1149.8kg/unit and mechanized dolnets, 378kg/unit.
Mechanized gillnets had a catch rate of 291.1kg/unit
24. References
2020 THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE, Food and Agriculture Organization.
Annual Report 2020, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
