date:Jun 08, 2015
This is due to lack of adequate information on the availability and extent of commercial exploitation of conventional and non-conventional resources beyond the present fishing grounds in Bay of Bengal.
Speaking on this, Dr U Sreedhar from the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) said that at present marine fish exploitation from India's EEZ (exclusive economic zone where a nation has a right over exploitation of marine resources) is 3 million tonnes out of the total estimated harve