1986•Unpublished venueRequires access
The tuna resources
P P Pillai
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Abstract
^ s a part of the National policy for the judicious exploitation
of the living resources of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of
India, greater emphasis is to be given for the development of tuna
fisheries, both in the artisanal sector and high seas. Despite the
fact that the past two decades have witnessed the augmentation of
indegenous production of tunas in the small scale Hshery sector,
through mechanisation and increased effort through drift gilhietting,
pole and line (live-bait) fishing and purse seining, tunas remain to
be one of the least exploited scombroid resources of Indian Seas
accounting for 2.11% of the total marine fish catch in India at the
1984 level, although there has been an appreciable increase in the
landings of coastal species of tunas during the last IS years.