Deep-Sea Fisheries of India, Vols. 1 to 2

Contents: Vol. 1. Preface. Introduction. I. Estimation of potential fishery resources: 1. Northwest coast. 2. Southwest coast. 3. Southeast coast. 4. Northeast coast. 5. Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 6. Lakshadweep Islands. 7. FORV Sagar Sampada, a national facility. 8. Stock estimates. II. Prawn fishery of the northeast coast: 1. Prawn landings along the northeast coast. 2. Prawn landings in West Bengal. 3. Prawn fishery of Orissa. 4. Prawn fishery of Andhra Pradesh. 5. Prawn fishery of the large trawlers. 6. Prawn fishery of mini trawlers. 7. Maximum sustainable yield. III. Bio-economic analysis of the northeast coast demersal fisheries: 1. Data processing. 2. Results of the bio-economic analysis. IV. Diversification of deep-sea fishing vessels: 1. Deep-sea lobster fishing. 2. The guidicelli report. 3. Monofilament longlining. 4. The proposal of AIFI in 1993. 5. Trawling operations in Myanmar. 6. Trawling operations in Indonesia. 7. Modification of trawlers for longlining. V. Financing the deep-sea fishing fleets: 1. Shipping development fund committee. 2. Formation of SCICI. 3. Necessity of a fisheries bank. 4. Plight of fishing vessel building yards. 5. Defaulting by companies. 6. Rehabilitation of deep-sea fishing industry. 7. General remarks. VI. The deep-sea prawn fishery: 1. Exploratory surveys by INP vessels. 2. Exploratory surveys in FORV Sagar Sampada. 3. Studies by fishery survey of India. 4. Operations of chartered trawlers. 5. Deep-sea prawn fishery of Kerala. 6. Deep-sea prawn fishery at Mangalore. 7. The deep-sea prawn fishery at Tuticorin. 8. Deep-sea prawn fishery along the coromandel coast. 9. Management of the deep-sea prawn fishery. VII. Deep-sea lobster fishery of the Southwest coast: 1. Surveys by INP during 1967 and 1968. 2. INP surveys during 1969-71. 3. Surveys by fishery survey of India. 4. Exploratory surveys by Sagar Sampada. 5. Commercial operations. 6. Estimation of resource potential. 7. Management measures.
Vol. 2. VIII. Deep-sea lobster fishery of the Andamans: 1. Geographical distribution. 2. Distinctive characteristics. 3. Exploratory surveys. 4. Commercial operations. 5. Processing. 6. Marketing. IX. Operations of charter fishing fleets: 1. Advantages of chartering. 2. Monitoring of charter operations. 3. Types of vessels and techniques. 4. Closure of charter scheme. X. Joint ventures with foreign companies 1. Joint ventures: benefits to host country. 2. The problems and prospects of joint ventures. 3. Joint ventures in deep-sea fishing. XI. Poaching by foreign fishing vessels in the Indian EEZ: 1. Poaching fleets and their operations. 2. Evidence of poaching. 3. Surveillance by coast guard. 4. Poaching by chartered vessels. XII. The High seas tuna longline fishing by Indian fishing fleets: 1. Development of longlining in Indian Ocean. 2. Exploratory longline fishing by Indian vessels. 3. Joint ventures in tuna longlining. 4. Longlining by medium shrimp trawlers. XIII. Squid jigging explorations: 1. Squid jigging in neretic waters. 2. Jigging experiments in oceanic waters. 3. Squid jigging operations off Gujarat coast. 4. Jigging operations during 1988-98. 5. General remarks. XIV. By-catch and discards: 1. Discarding of by-catch. 2. By-catch of prawn fisheries. 3. By-catch reduction devices. 4. By-catch in groundfish fisheries. 5. By-catch in tuna fisheries. 6. Suggestions to reduce by-catch. XV. The deep-sea fishery policy: 1. Coastal fishing policy. 2. Deep-sea fishing policy. 3. Draft national fisheries policy. 4. Comprehensive marine fishing policy. 5. General remarks. XVI. Conservation and management of marine fishery resources: 1. Management objectives. 2. Physical assets. 3. Development of the fishery. 4. Biological studies. 5. Methods of stock assessment. 6. Studies on stock estimates. 7. Management strategies. 8. Over capacity and overcapitalization. 9. Management of shared fish stocks. 10. By-catch and discards. 11. Code of conduct for responsible fisheries. 12. General remarks/conclusions. XVII. Conclusions and remarks. References. Index.

"It is sincerely hoped that this book will fill the existing lacunae in the available information on the deep-sea fisheries. It would be useful to students at graduate and post-graduate levels studying capture fisheries and in particular the offshore fisheries, to the entrepreneurs who wish to enter this profitable venture in fisheries, to the policy makers to make practical decision with wisdom and to scientists for suggesting reasonable and lasting measures of management to obtain maximum benefit from the fishery resources in general and the deep-sea fishery resources in particular. Some of the subjects dealt in this book are not available in any of the available books on fisheries. Apart from dealing with the general subjects the book gives detailed information on joint ventures and charters of foreign fishing companies and the related policy decisions from time to time, bioeconomic analysis of fisheries, closed season of fisheries and other management measures applicable to Indian fisheries. The book would receive the attention of a number of people engaged in the study of marine fisheries." (jacket)