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The by-Catch from Indian Shrimp Trawlers in the Bay of Bengal-BOBP/WP/68

Year of publication 1991

Pages p.24

Author A. Gordon;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Shrimps are a major foreign exchange earner for India. But in the race for valuable shrimp, the considerable by-catch hauled up with it is, by and large, ignored in parts of the country. This by-catch is almost 90 per cent of the shrimp caught. This report, based principally on work done in 1988, documents work on assessing the volume and composition of shrimp by-catch discarded by trawlers on India’s east coast and identifies the constraints to its improved utilization. At the time this stud y was undertaken, the provisional estimate of by-catch discards was approximately 100,000 t/a year. Though the numbers have changed since, the loss of by-catch continues to be substantial off this coast. Consequently, more detailed work has followed in specific areas, using this work as a basis. The study of shrimp by-catch and this report, which documents the work done, have been sponsored by the Bay of Bengal Programme’s (BOBP’s) Post-Harvest Fisheries Project. This project has been executed by the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), U.K. and has been funded by the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) of the United Kingdom. During the work the best available experts were engaged and consulted. Besides the BOBP and NRI staff, they included counterparts and fishermen, A. Seetharamaswamy in Vishakhapatnam, and Roger Kullberg who provided invaluable assistance with data collection.

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