THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (DR.CHARAN DAS MAHANT)
(a) : Ministry of Agriculture issues Letter of Permit (LoP) allowing fishing in the
Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). As on date there are 87 valid LoPs and the
actual number of vessels engaged in fishing varies from time to time.
(b) & (c); The current year landings data is not available. However, last three years
landing figures does not show any indication about declining trend as given below:
(million tonnes)
Year 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Landings 2.978 3.104 3.225
(d) 66 (e) : Non availability of resource specific Deep Sea Fishing Vessels and trained
crew to manage these vessels and deep sea fishing operations are major constraints in the
exploitation of deep sea resources. Deep Sea fishery associations have been suggesting
measures to streamline existing procedures for grant of LoP such as uniform check lists
by all concerned agencies/Departments, increase in duration of Voyage clearance, speedy
grant of radio licence, security clearance by concerned Ministry/Department, removal of
ceiling on number of vessels that can be acquired etc.
(f) : The Government, through an Inter-Ministerial Empowered Committee on Marine Fisheries
(EC) regularly reviews the deep sea fishing guidelines and policies to provide an enabling
environment for the growth of deep sea fisheries. Besides, the Government has constituted
a Sub-Committee to suggest measures to streamline procedures for grant of LoP and an Expert
Group to revalidate marine fishery resource potential.
(d) 6t (e) : Non availability of resource specific Deep Sea Fishing Vessels and trained crew
to manage these vessels and deep sea fishing operations are major constraints in the
exploitation of deep sea resources. Deep Sea fishery associations have been suggesting
measures to streamline existing procedures for grant of LoP such as uniform check lists by
all concerned agencies/Departments, increase in duration of Voyage clearance, speedy
grant of radio licence, security clearance by concerned Ministry/Department, removal of
ceiling on number of vessels that can be acquired etc.
(f) : The Government, through an Inter-Ministerial Empowered Committee on
Marine Fisheries (EC) regularly reviews the deep sea fishing guidelines and policies to
provide an enabling environment for the growth of deep sea fisheries. Besides, the Government
has constituted a Sub-Committee to suggest measures to streamline procedures for grant of
LoP and an Expert Group to revalidate marine fishery resource potential.
