Page 5 - Fisheries Sector

Govt drafting fisheries policy with Rs 45,000 cr budget for next five years

The newly carved out Fisheries Ministry is working on an overarching policy that would cover all aspects of the fishery sector

Centre approves Rs 453 cr loan to Tamil Nadu for building fishing harbours

The funds will be released from the Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF) that has a corpus of Rs 7,522 crore

Of 20 mn fishermen, Kisan credit cards given to 8,400 so far, says govt

However, not many cards could be distributed to fish farmers due to lack of awareness and delay in issuing RBI guidelines for implementation of this facility, sources said.

Govt okays Rs 75-bn fund to help boost fish production, jobs in fisheries

The govt aims to achieve a sustainable growth of 8-9%, so that fish production reaches the level of about 20 mn tonnes by 2022-23

Poor insurance cover in fisheries sector, business risks ignored: Study

It was also found out that the level of adoption of insurance in aquaculture is also very low