An overview of the marine fish landings in Andhra Pradesh during 2014

The estimated marine fish landings in Andhra \nPradesh during the year 2014 was 3.41 lakh tonnes \n(t) as compared to 2.66 lakh t in 2013 showing an \nincrease of 28%. The state’s contribution to the all \nIndia landings during 2014 was 9.5 %. Resources such \nas Indian mackerel and lesser sardines constituted \nthe maximum, being 16.3% and 12.2% of the landings \nrespectively. Tunnies and penaeid prawns landings \ncontributed 8% each while the other important \nspecies/ groups were ribbon fishes 5.9%, carangids \n5.5%, perches 4.2%, croakers 3.8%, oil sardine 3.5%, \ngoatfishes 2.3%, seer fishes 2.3%, Stolephorus spp. \n2%, crabs 2%, Silverbellies 1.9% and elasmobranchs \n1.6%. Landings of crabs, Indian mackerel, oil \nsardine, lesser sardines, seer fishes and tunnies had \nincreased by 0.4, 0.65, 1.04, 2.32, 0.56, 1.07 times \nrespectively when compared to 2013 landing trends. \nOther clupeids and silverbellies had decreased when \ncompared to the previous year landings.