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Exploitation of Marine Fisheries in Kerala – An Analysis

Volume : 103
Issue: Jul-sep
Pages: 286 - 292
Published: April 30, 2023
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Abstract


Fisheries is a commercially important occupation, impacting the livelihood of 39.9 lakh fishermen in India and 2.3 lakh fishermen in Kerala. Extraction of fisheries in a sustainable manner from sea and oceans ensures their presence for future generations. India stands at seventh position in world marine fish production in the year 2014. Catch of marine fish after the imposition of ban on trawling since 1988 in Kerala has grown at a rate which is three times faster than that before the ban. The usual period of ban on trawling coincides favourably with the spawning period of Mackerel whose catch is the largest in Kerala in 2016.

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286 - 292
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Marine fisheries Western Indian coast Maximum sustainable yield.
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