Linkages between fishermen and researchers in Marine fisheries –An analysis

Abstract

Fisheries play an important role in our country's economic development. In India one million active fishermen are engaged in marine fishing, with about 0.2 million in mechanized sector, 0.17 million in motorized sector and the rest in the artisanal sector. Among the fisher folk engaged in marine fisheries, about 0.7 million work as labourers of whom 65.00 per cent are engaged in artisanal fishing (Devaraj et a1. 1998). Fisheries research institutions are mainly involved in h d I ffh E h h many technologies were developed by the research organization the adoption of these technologies by the fishermen are found to be low. Linkage between the fishermen and the researchers has an important say to this