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There are as many as 250-300 players manufacturing fishing nets or importing/exporting fishing nets
in India. Most of these units are SSI units. Garware marine has a production capacity of 500 MT of
fishing nets and production of 371 MT fishing nets (year-ending June 2007). Garware Wall Ropes is
the largest player in the fishnets market with a capacity of 6,970 MT of nettings (Source: Capitaline)
of which the capacity of fishing nets is around 5,000 MT. The company manufactured 6,133 MT of
nettings in 2007-08. Garware Wall Ropes manufactured 15,842 MT of Synthetic ropes/twines and
yarn in 2007-08 (capacity 27,514 MT). These twines are used for manufacturing ropes as well as nets
including fishnets.
Hinafil India Pvt Ltd has production capacity of 960 MT of nylon mono-filament fishnets with
production of only 39 MT in 2006-07.
SRF Polymers Limited is a major player in the fishnets twines industry with production of 500 MT of
nylon twines (capacity of 1,440 MT) every year. These twines are used to manufacture fishnets / fish
lines.
There is a lot of excess capacity of fishnets in India (Garware Marine and Garware Wall Ropes are
not using their complete capacity for production). The capacity of fishnets in India is expected to
increase at 5-10% y-o-y as the small-scale players in the industry are expected to increase.
Imports & Exports of fishnets
The import figure for fishing nets is as given below:-
HS Code Description
Imports
(in MT)
Imports
(in Rs crore)
2007-08(E) 2007-08(E)
56081110
MADE UP FISHING NETS
OF NYLON
Around 650
MT
~ Rs 11 crore
56081110
MADE UP FISHING NETS
OF NYLON (USED)
Around 550
MT
~ Rs 2 crore
56075010 NYLON FISH NET TWINE Around 25 MT ~ Rs 0.4 crore
Source: DGCIS, IMaCS Analysis
Used fishing nets are imported primarily from Pakistan followed by Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. India
imports 60-70% of the fishnets from China, 20-25% from Thailand, around 8-10% from Italy and the
remaining from Sri Lanka. Jaya Engineering located at Thuthukudi, Tamil Nadu has imported fishing
nets of around 6 crore in 2007-08 from UK.
The estimated export figures for fishing-nets are as given below:-
HS Code Description
Exports
(in MT)
Exports
(in Rs crore)