Fisheries, comprising aquaculture, provide a vital source of food, employment, recreation, trade and economic well-being for people throughout the world, both for present and future generations and should therefore be conducted in a responsible manner. In recent past, world fisheries have become a market-driven, dynamically developing sector of the food industry and coastal states have driven to take advantage of their new opportunities by investing in moder fishing fleets and processing factories in response to growing international demand for fish and fishery products.

The book is an incisive manual which mainly deals with living aquatic resources and aquatic habitat production, development of coastal aquaculture in India, sustaining marine fisheries, conduct for responsible fisheries and aquatic resources management, current state of depletion in firsheries resources etc.



Table of Contents:

Introduction Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Living Aquatic Resources and Aquatic Habitat Protection Magnitude of Escape Mortality and Its Impact on Fisheries Management Reservoir Fisheries Resources of India Global Production and State of Marine Fishery Resources Inland Fisheries Development Development of Coastal Aquaculture in India Digestion in Teleost Fishes The Fisheries and Fist Trade of India Sustaining Marine Fisheries Fishing and Marine Ecosystems Prawn Fish and Bombay Duck Fishery Application of Remote Sensing to Fisheries Current State of Depletion in Fisheries Resources



Author Bio: D N Mishra a Gold Medalist in Zoology in M.A., at present pursuing his Ph.D. On Inland Fisheries Development and Coastal Aquaculture in India is a Researcher and Scientist with a reputed institution of India based in Uttar Pradesh vowed to exploring the possibilities of enhancing the possibilities of enhancing the new opportunities by investing a modern fishing fleets. Mr. Mishra is also a visiting faculty.