The inland fish production has shown a rapid growth from 2014-15 to 2022-23. The total inland fish production increased from 66.87 lakh tonnes in 2014-15 to 131.13 lakh tonnes in 2022-2023. The State-wise details of inland fish production are furnished at Annexure-I.

During the last three financial years (FY 2020-21 to FY 2022-23) and the current financial year (2023-24), a central budget of Rs. 4810 crore has been allocated for implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) and out of this budgetary allocation, a sum of Rs. 3345.28 crore has been released to various State Governments/Union Territories and other implementing agencies for development of fisheries and aquaculture sector.

The share of Fisheries sector in the total Gross Value Added (GVA), at constant prices, in 2021-2022 is Rs. 1,47,519 crores that constitutes about 1.07 % of the total national GVA and 6.86 % of Agricultural GVA.

As reported by Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, the total import of fish and related products is Rs. 1,949.51 crores in the year 2022-23, against the import of Rs. 1,271.11 crores in the year 2019-20. The year-wise details of import of fish and related products since 2019 are as under:

 

S.No.	Financial Year	Import Value (in Rupees crores)
1	2019-20	1,271.11
2	2020-21	1,656.01
3	2021-22	1,661.71
4	2022-23	1,949.51
Total		6,538.35

 

The total export of fish and related products is Rs. 63,969.14 crores in the year 2022-23 against Rs. 46,662.85 crores in the year 2019-20. The year-wise export details of fish and related products since 2019 is as under:

 

S.No.	Financial Year	Export Value (in Rupees crores)
1	2019-20	46,662.85
2	2020-21	43,720.98
3	2021-22	57,586.48
4	2022-23	63,969.14
Total		2,11,939.45

This information was given by Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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