Problems and Prospects

Despite tremendous success in the development of fisheries in the country during the last four decades, pisciculture is facing a number of problems.

1. Most of the fishermen are poor. They are not able to purchase good equipment to improve the harvest of fish.

2. The water bodies (rivers, lakes, ponds, and coastal areas of the seas) are increasingly polluted.

3. The area of paddy fields in which fisheries used to be kept is also decreasing under the impact of fast growth of population, industrialisation, and urbanisation.

4. Adequate information about the environment of water-bodies (ponds, lakes, rivers, and sea is not available).

5. Unpredictable nature of monsoon as a result of which the inland fisheries suffer adversely.

6. Problem of marketing, storage, and transportation.

7. Inadequacy of research and extension service facilities.

8. There is need of Pink Revolution (Prawns) in the coastal regions of the country.