date:Jun 08, 2015
allow areas.
To optimize fishing in the EEZ, trawling has emerged as the most important method for exploiting demersal fishery resources that live near the bottom of the sea, especially prawns and shrimps.
Trawlers have become the main mode of the fishing sector and 50 per cent of the total Indian catch comes from trawlers. There has been a steady increase in the marine fish production over the years in India.
Indias marine fish production has increased to 2.7 million tonnes by end of 2000