road map for fisheries development - Department of Agriculture ...

17. FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT17.1 Introduction : State is endowed with vast potential of fisheries waterresources. It includes 69000 ha ponds and tanks, 9000 ha oxbow lakes, 7200 hareservoirs, 3200 km rivers and about 1,00,000 ha of riverine and other flood plainswetlands. The average annual production of fish is nearly 2.61 lakh tonnes against theannual demand of 4.56 lakh tonnes. Thus it seems necessary to double the productionto bridge the vast gap between demand and supply. For this it is essetnial to make aspecific work plan and road map.17.2 Aquaculture and culture based fisheries are the options for enhancing theproductivity of more amenable waters such as ponds and the oxbow lakes (mauns)with immediate results. Overall the proposed road map aims at implementing thefollowing main activities:- conservation of water bodies like ponds and tanks intensive and semi intensive fish culture in ponds construction of inlet and oultet for easier passage in mauns for culturebased fisheries culture up to an optimum size raising annual production of fry up to 65 crores from the present level of35 crores developing the market system to support farmers for different priceSpecific stress has been given in this road map on developing culture basedfisheries in mauns and bringing ponds into intensive and semi intensive culture toattain the desired level of 4.56 lakh tonnes of annual fish production. Apart fromthese other supporting schemes would also continue. Brief descriptions of schemesare as follows:-17.2.1 Arrangement of fingerlings as seeds:-For developing oxbow lakes into culture based fisheries and bringing ponds intointensive/semi intensive culture, the annual requirement of fingerlings would bearound 40 crores. Apart from this, other water bodies would also demand seed.Species wise requirement of 40 crores fingerlings may be summarized as depicted inthe following table:-106