With its long coastline of 8118 kms, 53000 sq kms of continental shelf area, 2.2 million sq km of Exclusive Economic Zone and 1.2 million hectares of brackish water bodies, India is endowed with rich fishery resources. The 'Marine Fisheries Resources of India' can be summarized as follows:-

State/UT	Approx. Length of Coast Line (Kms.)	Continental Shelf ('000 Sq. Kms.)	Number of Landing Centres	Number of Fishing Villages
Andhra Pradesh	974	33	271	498
Goa	104	10	34	39
Gujarat	1600	184	123	263
Karnataka	300	27	88	156
Kerala	590	40	178	222
Maharashtra	720	112	152	406
Odisha	480	26	57	641
Tamilnadu	1076	41	352	581
West Bengal	158	17	44	346
Andaman & Nicobar	1912	35	25	100
Daman & Diu	27	-	7	22
Lakshadweep	132	4	19	20
Pondicherry	45	1	26	28
TOTAL	8118	530	1376	3322

(Source: Marine Fisheries Census, 2005)

India is the third largest producer of fish in the world and second largest producer of fresh water fish in the world. Fish production increased by 4.4 per cent and reached 6.9 million tonnes in 2006-07. Fishing, aquaculture and allied activities are reported to have provided livelihood to over 14 million persons in 2005-06, apart from being a major foreign exchange earner. The fish seed production was 31688.01 million fry during 2006-07.

Year	Fish production (million tonnes)
	Marine	Inland	Total
1990-91	2.3	1.5	3.8
2000-01	2.8	2.8	5.6
2003-04	3.0	3.4	6.4
2004-05	2.8	3.5	6.3
2005-06	2.8	3.8	6.6
2006-07(P)	3.0	3.8	6.9

(Source: Economic Survey 2007-08)

The table summarizing the 'fish production State-wise' during the period 2000-01 to 2006-07 (In '000 tonnes) is as follows:-

State/UT	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07 (P)
Andhra Pradesh	589.69	676.11	827.90	944.64	853.05	891.09	856.93
Arunachal Pradesh	2.50	2.60	2.60	2.65	2.70	2.75	2.77
Assam	158.62	161.45	165.52	181.00	186.31	188.00	181.48
Bihar	222.16	240.40	261.00	266.49	267.51	279.53	267.04
Goa	71.57	69.92	76.53	87.36	990.44	104.95	102.39
Gujarat	660.74	701.60	777.91	654.62	635.21	733.82	747.33
Haryana	33.04	34.57	35.18	39.13	42.05	48.20	60.08
Himachal Pradesh	7.02	7.22	7.24	6.53	6.90	7.29	6.89
Jammu & Kashmir	17.51	18.85	19.75	19.75	19.10	19.15	19.20
Karnataka	303.38	249.61	266.42	257.00	251.23	297.57	292.46
Kerala	651.81	671.82	678.32	684.70	678.31	636.89	677.63
Madhya Pradesh	48.84	47.46	42.17	50.82	62.06	61.08	65.04
Maharashtra	526.10	537.05	514.10	545.13	548.02	580.55	595.94
Manipur	16.05	16.45	16.60	17.60	17.80	18.22	18.61
Meghalaya	6.18	4.97	5.37	5.15	5.64	4.12	5.49
Mizoram	2.86	3.15	3.25	3.38	3.68	3.75	3.76
Nagaland	5.50	5.20	5.50	5.56	4.90	5.50	5.80
Odisha	259.64	281.95	287.53	306.90	315.59	325.45	342.04
Punjab	52.00	58.00	66.00	83.65	77.70	85.64	86.70
Rajasthan	12.12	14.27	25.60	14.30	16.39	18.50	22.20
Sikkim	0.14	0.14	0.14	0.14	0.14	0.15	0.15
Tamil Nadu	481.42	485.00	437.50	474.14	459.43	463.03	542.28
Tripura	29.42	29.45	29.52	17.98	19.84	23.87	28.63
Uttar Pradesh	208.29	225.37	249.84	267.00	277.07	289.58	306.73
West Bengal	1060.23	1100.10	1120.00	1169.60	1215.00	1250.00	1359.10
A & N Islands	27.68	27.08	28.30	31.15	32.68	12.09	28.68
Chandigarh	0.08	0.04	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.17
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	0.04	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
Daman & Diu	16.38	21.52	11.26	13.77	12.51	17.79	16.41
Delhi	3.98	3.20	2.25	2.10	1.41	0.70	0.61
Lakshadweep	12.00	13.65	7.50	10.03	11.96	11.96	11.75
Pondicherry	43.30	44.50	45.02	48.00	36.75	21.45	39.66
Chhattisgarh	43.39	95.76	99.80	111.05	120.07	131.75	137.75
Uttaranchal	9.07	6.42	2.55	2.56	2.57	2.79	3.03
Jharkhand	42.60	101.00	45.38	75.38	22.00	34.27	34.27
Dep Sea Fishing	30.00	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Total	5655.35	5955.93	6199.68	6399.39	6304.75	6571.62	6869.05

N.A - Not Available

(Source: Annual Report 2007-08; Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries; and States/ Union Territories)

Further, considerable infrastructure facilities for processing of marine products have been developed over a period of 50 years. At present, there are over 369 freezing units with a daily processing capacity of 10266 tons out of which 150 units are approved for export to EU. About 499 units are engaged in production of frozen fish with a total storage capacity of 134767 MTs. Besides, there are 12 surimi units, 5 canning units and 471 units that are engaged in pre-processing and dry fish storage.

The quantum of marine products processed and exported and revenue thereof, during the period 2001-02 to 2006-07, is as:

Year	Quantity (MT)	Value (Rs. crores)	Value (US $ million)
2001-02	424470	5957	1253
2002-03	467297	6881	1425
2003-04	412017	6092	1331
2004-05	461329	6647	1479
2005-06	512164	7245	1644
2006-07	612641	8364	1852

(Source: Annual Report 2007-08, Ministry of Food Processing Industries)

Exports of marine products from India, during 2006-07, set an all-time record, both in terms of quantity - 612641 MTs (growth of 19.62%); and of value - Rs. 8363.53 crores, equivalent to US Dollar 1852 million (growth of 15.43% in rupee value and 12.69% in US $ realization). This is the third consecutive year when the exports have shown an upward growth in volume and value.

Shrimp continued to be major item of India's exports in value (55%), followed by frozen fish (17%), Frozen Cuttlefish (9%), Frozen Squid (7%) and other items. European Union remained India's largest market with a percentage share of 34% followed by Japan (16.1%), USA (16.03%) and China (14%).