Marine fish production in India was highest in Gujarat at 7,86,495 tonnes in 2017. Pelagic finfish made up 36% of landings in Gujarat, led by ribbonfish and Bombay duck. Gir-Somnath district accounted for the most landings in Gujarat. Maharashtra saw marine fish landings increase 30% to 3.81 lakh tonnes in 2017, with Indian mackerel and croakers as major contributors. Karnataka and Goa also saw increased landings in 2017 dominated by mackerel and oil sardine respectively. The largest producers after Gujarat and Maharashtra were Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh.

1. Presented By : Rajesh V. Chudasama
An Assignment On
Marine Fish Production of India

2. Marine Fish Production of India

3. 1. Gujarat
States Wise Marine Fish Production Data

4. • In Gujarat, the annual marine fish landings during 2017 registered
an all time high of 7,86,495 t. During 2016, the fish landings was
7,74,373 t.
• Assemblage wise marine fish landings during 2017 showed the
predominance of the pelagic finfish resources (36%), followed by
demersals (30%)
• District wise,
1. Gir-Somnath ranked first with 3.87 lakh t
2. Porbandar (1.25 lakh t)
3. Amreli (0.96 lakh t)
4. Junagadh (0.65 lakh t)
5. Dev Bhoomi Dwaraka (0.62 lakh t)
6. Kutch (0.26 lakh t)
7. Valsad (0.10 lakh t)
8. Navsari (10168 t)
9. Jamnagar (2659 t)
10. Morbi (270 t).

5. Pelagic resources
• Landings of pelagic fishes was 2.82 lakh t in 2017
contributing of 35.85% to the total marine fish landings of
Gujarat.
• Dominant resources were ribbon fishes, followed by
Bombay duck, clupeids, seer fishes, tunas and carangids.
• The estimated catch of Bombay duck was 76,573.87 t
• Ribbonfish with a landing of 1,13,903.81 t
• The dominant species landed was Thunnus tonggol
(43.68%). Carangids were 27664 t with Megalaspis
cordyla as major species (30.07%). Clupeids (28424.9 t),
Indian mackerel (5,628.14 t) and seer fishes (8,762.68 t)
were other important resources that contributed to the
pelagic fish landings osf Gujarat.

6. Trachipteridae Scomberomorini
Harpadon nehereus Megalaspis cordyla
Epinephelus diacantus Pampus argenteus

7. Demersal resources
• Demersal fish landings contributed 2,27,615 t, a decline of 5.18%
from the previous year, and accounting for 28.9% of total fish
landings of Gujarat.
• Croakers were the most dominant group with a contribution of
19.67% to the demersal landings followed by bull’s eye (15.57%),
catfishes (13.29%), threadfin breams (12.47%) and rock cods
(9.88%). Pomfrets increased in landings by 5.74% (8,446 t)
supported by silver pomfret (73.6%), black pomfret (19.5%) and
Chinese pomfret (6.9%).
• Total elasmobranchs landing in 2017 was 9468.5 t showing a decline
of 46.6% from 2016. Elasmobranchs contribution was 4.16% of total
demersal landings compared to 5.67% in 2016.
• Sharks contributed 65.1% towards total elasmobranchs landings,
followed by rays (22.5%) and guitar fishes (13.4%). Scoliodon
laticaudus is the most dominant shark species with a share of 93.1%
(5,764.2 t) against 82.3% in 2016.

8. 2. Maharashtra
• Estimated marine fish landings of Maharashtra during
2017 was 3.81 lakh t with 30% increase from the
previous year (2.92 lakh t).
• Pelagic resources contributed major share with 39%,
followed by demersal fishes (29%). Indian mackerel
(9.8%), croakers (9.6%), threadfin breams (7.2%) and
Bombay duck (7.1%) Catch rate.

9. Sardinella longiceps
Engraulidae
Coryphaena hippurus Coilia dussumieri
Parastromateus niger Nemipterus japonicus

10. Pelagic resources
• Pelagic fishery contributed 39% to the total marine
catch in Maharashtra. Catch increased from 1,19,855 t
(2016) to 1,49,535 t due to increase in landings of
Indian mackerel, Bombay duck, carangids and
ribbonfish.
• Bombay duck (19%), carangids (14%), ribbonfish (13%),
anchovies (7.9%) and oil sardine (6%).
• Coryphaena hippurus landings was 568 t and Coilia
dussumieri contributed 2.9% (11,093 t).

11. Demersal resources
• Demersal fish landings were estimated at 1.09 lakh t (43%
increase compared to the previous year 76203.4 t in 2016)
which formed 28.7% of total production.
• Dominant species in trawl fishery was Johnius borneensis (J.
vogleri) (27.8%), J. macrorhynus (25.5%), Otolithes cuvieri
(23.7%), Otolithoides biauritus (11.8%), J. sina (3.3%) and J.
glaucus (3.4%).
• Pomfret catch was 4133 t, with silver pomfret forming
64.1% (2648 t), Black pomfret 31.7% (1312 t) and Chinese
pomfret 4.2% (172 t).
• Threadfin breams contributed 25.2% to demersal fishes
followed by rock cods (9.7%), catfishes (8.4%) and soles
(3.8%).

12. 3. Karnataka and Goa
• Total estimated marine fish landings in
Karnataka (5,47,784 t) and Goa (61219 t)
registered 3.5% and 63.7% increase
respectively during 2017 as compared to the
previous year.
• Mackerel dominated in Karnataka and oil
sardine in Goa.
• Fishery and biology of 48 species landed were
studied in detail.

13. Pelagic resources
• Pelagic fishes contributed 3,50,037 t forming 63.9% of the
total landings in Karnataka registering 24.5% increase than
2016. less abundant state and the rest of the species
studied were in declining state.
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14. Demersal resources
• Demersal fishes with an estimated catch of 135136 t
formed 24.7% of the total catch in Karnataka and
5.6% (5572 t) in Goa.
• Catch declined by 28.5% as compared to the
previous year. In the demersal catch, perches
including Nemipterus spp. contributed 71 % of the
catch followed by lizard fishes (10%), croakers (5%)
and soles (3%).
• Composition (percentage) of juveniles and adults of
dominant demersal species landed in Karnataka was
estimated using the Minimum Legal Size (MLS).

15. 4. Kerala
• Total marine fish landings in
Kerala during 2017 was 5.85 lakh
tonnes, which was 10.4% higher
than that of 2016.
• Estimated landings of pelagic fin
fishes in Kerala during 2017 was
360148 t which formed 62% of
the total catch.
• Demersal fin fishes constituted
21.1% with an estimated landing
of 123462 t.

16. • Oi lsardine fishery in Kerala showed revival with an estimated landing of
1,27,000 t in 2017 compared to that of 43,492 t in 2016.
• Mackerel landings showed a decline of nearly 30% (33,336 t) compared to the
previous year.
• Carangids represented 13.1% of the total marine fish landings of the state
with an estimated landing of 77161 t.
• Seer fish landings during 2017 was 3741 t.
• Tuna landings declined during the year with an estimated catch of 22,587 t.
• A total of 5,184 t of elasmobranchs were landed in all gears during 2017.
• Threadfin breams With annual landings of 41,841 t, they formed 34% of the
total demersal finfish landings of the state.
• croakers was 4,886 t, 44% lower than that of the previous year.
• Lizard fishes Estimated landing was 16,371 t which formed 3.1% of the total
marine fish landings of Kerala.
• Silver pomfret Estimated catch was 689 t, which was 39% lower than that of
the previous year.

17. 5. Tamil Nadu
• Total marine production in
Tamil Nadu during 2017 was
6.55 lakh t, registering a
decrease of 7% compared to
previous year.
• Pelagic finfishes formed
51.9%, demersal finfishes
32%,

18. • Oil sardine landings encountered a huge drop of
36% whereas Lesser sardine regained its previous
prominence of more than 1 lakh tonnes.
• Silver bellies, one of the major resources in the
state was maintaining a similar trend.
Major Resources (t)
Lesser sardines 1,10,193
Silver bellies 76,221
Oil sardine 51,716
Indian Mackerel 21,928

19. Rastrelliger kanagurta Lesser sardines
Silver bellies

20. 6. Puducherry
• Total landing was 27040 t a decrease of 40% when
compared to previous year. Pelagic resources formed
38.2%, demersals 29.9%, Karaikal District contributed
74.4% of the total landings.
• Fishing harbours in Karaikal and Pondicherry are the
main contributors to the state's marine fish production.
Major Resources (t)
Scads 2,903
Silver bellies 1,162
Ribbon fishes 927
Croakers 787

21. 7. Andhra Pradesh
• Marine landings of Andhra Pradesh in 2017
were estimated at 1.99 lakh t.

22. Thunnus albacares Barracudas
Mackerel scad
Leatherjackets
Goat fish

23. Pelagic resources
• Among pelagics, the major contributors were clupeids
contributing 0.63 lakh t.
• Marine fish landings of Andhra Pradesh in 2017: 1.99
lakh t (50.99%), followed by mackerel (16.73%),
ribbonfish (12.55%), carangids (10.91%), tunas (3.2%),
seer fishes (2.6%) and barracudas (1.82%).
• Carangids landings were dominated by horse mackerel
35.99%, followed by scads 15.22% and leatherjackets
5.44%.
• In the tuna landings, little tuna dominated with
38.73%, followed by yellow fin tuna 27.18%, frigate
tuna 17.33% and skipjack tuna 16.76%.

24. Daemersal resources
• Among the demersals, croakers dominated the landings
forming 18.07% (8650 t), followed by silver bellies
(11.77%), pomfrets (10.4%), catfish (49.47%) and goat fish
(9.46%).
• Among pomfrets, Parastromateus niger contributed
57.77%, followed by Pampus argenteus (28.27%) and
Pampus chinensis (13.95%). Elasmobranchs contributed
5.5% of total demersal landings, with rays contributing
65.39%, followed by sharks (27.7%) and guitarfish (6.9%).

25. References
• CMFRI (2017-18), Sustainable Management of
Fishery Resources, Annul report, pp. 34-69

26. Thank You