Diversity in fished taxa along the Indian coast during 2012

Abstract

The marine fish landings in 2012 was estimated at 3.94 million tonnes and the contribution from different maritime states and union territories are shown in table-1. From the National Marine Fisheries Data Centre information on individual species wise estimates of marine fish landings and presence/ absence data of all the species landed along the Indian coast during 2012 were used for testing species diversity in the fished taxa among different maritime states and union territories. An All India species data base was created consisting of all the species caught during 2012, with details of Genus, Family, Order, Class and Phylum for each species