Fishery resources are scarce in the shallow waters of the seas. A team of scientists based Central Institute of Fisheries Technology Vizag (ICTP) had embarked on the search for resources at a depth of 1000 meters under the sea and succeeded.
During the arduous studies embarked in 2012 and goes on multiple boat trips Sagara Sampada research, these scientists have identified a total of 155 species belonging to 88 families unexplored depths ranging from 300 to 1100 meters in the East Coast.
So far, the fishing is carried out to a depth of 150 meters and none knew about the availability of resources and the variety under the oceans. Even in the shallow waters 150 meters deep, very limited choice of 20 species is captured. Besides local consumption, seafood export market has and brings currencies. In 2014-15, all fish exports from India stood at Rs 33,441crore.
Coastal fisheries worldwide are in deep crisis due to overfishing. This threatens food security in the world, especially the supply of animal protein in developing countries. The offshore environment is dark and cold. The fishing is good flourished in developed countries and continents like Europe, Soviet, US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. "Until recent decades, there has been little activity or interest in deep water in India, along with occasional companies by Indian scientists. This has led us to venture into the seas, especially on the east coast of identifying deepwater resources "said lead scientist ICTP, Dr. U. Sreedhar who led the study team.
The study, Assessment of demersal fish resources along the continental slope area of the exclusive economic zone of India and the central Indian Ocean with principal investigator Dr. U. Sreedhar, which began in 2012 will end in 2017. Current exploitation of marine fish in the Indian EEZ is three million tons from the total usable potential estimated 3.9 million tonnes. This is totally in coastal waters. The remaining potential of about 0.92 million tonnes, mainly in the deep seas and ocean region remained untapped.
"The real-time data on deepwater resources in distant waters and on the high seas is not available until now. Now this data can be used for the evolution of fishing techniques suitable for exploitation and utilization.
The lack of adequate information on the availability of fish and scope of the commercial exploitation of conventional and unconventional resources beyond the current fishing has been a major obstacle to the development of deep-sea fishing in Indian waters "she added Dr. Sreedhar.
During the arduous studies embarked in 2012 and goes on multiple boat trips Sagara Sampada research, these scientists have identified a total of 155 species belonging to 88 families unexplored depths ranging from 300 to 1100 meters in the East Coast.
So far, the fishing is carried out to a depth of 150 meters and none knew about the availability of resources and the variety under the oceans. Even in the shallow waters 150 meters deep, very limited choice of 20 species is captured. Besides local consumption, seafood export market has and brings currencies. In 2014-15, all fish exports from India stood at Rs 33,441crore.
Coastal fisheries worldwide are in deep crisis due to overfishing. This threatens food security in the world, especially the supply of animal protein in developing countries. The offshore environment is dark and cold. The fishing is good flourished in developed countries and continents like Europe, Soviet, US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. "Until recent decades, there has been little activity or interest in deep water in India, along with occasional companies by Indian scientists. This has led us to venture into the seas, especially on the east coast of identifying deepwater resources "said lead scientist ICTP, Dr. U. Sreedhar who led the study team.
The study, Assessment of demersal fish resources along the continental slope area of the exclusive economic zone of India and the central Indian Ocean with principal investigator Dr. U. Sreedhar, which began in 2012 will end in 2017. Current exploitation of marine fish in the Indian EEZ is three million tons from the total usable potential estimated 3.9 million tonnes. This is totally in coastal waters. The remaining potential of about 0.92 million tonnes, mainly in the deep seas and ocean region remained untapped.
"The real-time data on deepwater resources in distant waters and on the high seas is not available until now. Now this data can be used for the evolution of fishing techniques suitable for exploitation and utilization.
The lack of adequate information on the availability of fish and scope of the commercial exploitation of conventional and unconventional resources beyond the current fishing has been a major obstacle to the development of deep-sea fishing in Indian waters "she added Dr. Sreedhar.
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