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Abstract
The supply studies on the fisheries sector in India have been addressed at
the disaggregated level by production environment and by species groups.
These would be more imperative and useful for assessing the fish supply
at the national level. The fish supply projections by species groups under
different production environments have been obtained to a medium-term
horizon, by the year 2015 under various technological scenarios. The
study has concluded that the supply response to fish price changes has
been stronger under aquaculture than marine environment in India. Price
and technology have been reported as the important instruments to induce
higher supply. The change in the relative prices of fish species would
change the species-mix in the total supply. The fish production has been
projected as 4.6-5.5 million tonnes of inland fish and 3.2-3.6 million tonnes
of marine fish by the year 2015. More than 60 per cent of the additional fish
production will be contributed by aquaculture and mainly by the Indian
major carps.