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State Of Inland Fisheries And Inland Fisher Community Of India, A P. Sharma, P K. Katiha, A K. Sahoo, Ganesh Chandra

Ganesh Chandra

With exponential increase in human population. the food demand, shrinkage of cultivable land and decline in the agricultural productivity. role of livestock and fisheries sectors to fulfill growing demand for food is of paramount importance for nutritional security. In this context significance of fisheries sector is enormous and well documented. Starting from a purely traditional activity in the early fifties. the fisheries sector has transformed into a significant commercial enterprise with impressive growth (overI 0 fold increase in last six decades). The sector is employer of more than 14 million people. The environmental and social perspectives of inland open water …