Illuminating Hidden Harvests Naveen Namboothiri, Marianne Manuel, Tanmay Wagh In order to bring greater attention and pull back the curtain on the role of small scale fisheries in a country’s development, the FAO, WorldFish and Duke University initiated the lluminating Hidden Harvests project. This project is a follow-up to a 2012 study conducted by World…
Commercialisation of Fisheries Bycatch Trisha Gupta, Chetan Rao, Muralidharan M, Kartik Shanker, Naveen Namboothri Commercial fisheries catch a large volume and diversity of non-target species in their nets, known as bycatch. Although once discarded, with diminishing catches of commercial species and a growing demand for seafood and other products, many bycatch species are increasingly retained…
Monitoring fish catch in the Muttukadu Lagoon Naveen Namboothri Lagoons are highly productive ecosystems and provide a range of social and ecological services. They are rich breeding grounds for a number of marine species, regulate flooding, provide protection from storms and are sites of aesthetic beauty. Many of India’s lagoons are degraded due to a…
Fisheries resource monitoring in Karnataka Naveen Namboothri, Sajan John Historically referred to as the ‘mackerel coast’, Karnataka contributes significantly to India’s seafood industry. However, if one were to look beyond the benchmarks of ‘total catch’ and ‘Mean Sustainable Yield’, a different picture of its fisheries emerges. The characteristics of present-day fisheries in Karnataka shows not…
Addressing fisheries governance and management in the Andaman Islands Aarthi Sridhar, Naveen Namboothri, Sahir Advani The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have rich marine resources that support a range of fisheries across the length of the islands. Fishers from different parts of India have been settled in these islands as a result of which there is…