Land: India

Tiger prawn is slowly and steadily making its way to retail malls and outlets in India as people started having this product.

India’s dependence on few destination markets mars its exports of marine products and brought down its fish exporting revenue.

Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI) has called for help from the government to save their fisheries sector.

Indian fishing industry has called for exploring innovative ways to focus on untapped tuna resources to increase seafood exports.

India does not want unreasonable restriction and thus decided to seek revised drafting of the proposed WTO rules on fisheries subsidies.

Indian fisheries working group has demanded to introduce additional resource-specific vessels for the 11th plan.

Illegal fishing vessels were seized and eight crewmembers were arrested from prohibited Gahirmatha marine sanctuary limits off the Bay of Bengal coast.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $5-million grant (approximately Rs.23.22 crore) to help fishing communities and others affected by the December 2004 tsunami in Kerala and Tamil Nadu restore and diversify their livelihood.