Marine fisheries growth, performance and institutional arrangements in Tamil Nadu

Abstract

This paper reveals the growth and instability of Tamil Nadu Marine fish production during the recent decade (2001 to 2010), across the year - districts wise and month wise. Emphasis is made to review the marine fisheries policies of Tamil Nadu to analyze its coherence with the marine fish production. From the study, it is observed that the growth and instability performance was rather steady during 2006-07 to 2010-11 than the earlier years (2001-02 to 2005-06). Further the study has also evolved the importance of marine fisheries policies for the social security of marine fishers; thereby providing a significant picture of Tamil Nadu marine fisheries for the policy makers, who are repeatedly confronted with the problem of insufficient data.