6.2.3.2. Food Fish Production

6.2.3.2. Food Fish Production

The estimated fish production was a more 0.752 million tonnes (t) consisting of 0.534 million tonnes from marine fisheries and 0.218 million t from inland fisheries in 1990-91. It rose to 7.637 m.t in 2008-09 comprising 2.977 million t of marine fish and 4.660 million t of inland fish (Table 2) . While the marine fish production recorded an annual growth rate of 1.33%, the inland fish production hadĀ anĀ annual growth rate of 6.52%. The inland fish production accounted for over 60% of total fish production mainly due to enhanced output from farmed fish production.

Last modified: Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 7:26 AM