Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying is implementing flagship scheme namely “Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY)” with investment of ₹20,050 crore in fisheries sector for a period of 5 years with effect from the FY 2020-21 to FY 2024-25 in all the States/UTs. PMMSY  inter-alia, envisages to  address critical gaps in fish production, productivity, quality, technology, post-harvest infrastructure and management, modernization and strengthening of value chain, reduction of post-harvest losses, traceability etc including marketing infrastructure.  For creation and strengthening of marketing infrastructure, PMMSY has supported  27189 units of fish transportation facilities (refrigerated vehicles, insulated vehicles, two wheelers/ three wheelers), 21 state of the art wholesale fish markets, 202 fish retail markets, 6694 fish kiosks and 5 E-platform for e-trading and e-marketing of fish and fisheries products with total outlay of Rs. 1654.51 crore in all the States/UTs across the country. To provide real-time and accurate price information to fishers and fish farmers and to help them for negotiating better price and profitability, the Department through National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) has launched the ‘Fish Market Price Information System’ (FMPIS) during 2018-19 to capture and disseminate fish market prices of commercially important marine and inland fishes from 111 wholesale and retail fish markets in 29 States/UTs.

Further, the Department of Fisheries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) with an objective to provide a digital platform and empower all stakeholders including traditional fishermen, fish farmers producer organization, entrepreneurs from fisheries sector to buy and sell their products through e-market place. Further, PMMSY has supported 2195 fisheries cooperatives as Fish Farmers Producer Organizations (FFPOs) with project outlay of Rs. 544.85 crore through National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) as implementing agencies.

The Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY), a flagship scheme implemented for overall development of fisheries and aquaculture sector in the country, inter-alia envisages to enhance fisheries exports to Rs 1.0 lakh crores by 2024-25. In order to enhance India’s export competitiveness and higher price realization, the PMMSY supports a basket of interventions/activities along the fisheries value chain including quality fish production, expansion, diversification and intensification of brackish water aquaculture, promotion of export-oriented species, infusion of technology, robust disease management and traceability, training and capacity building, creation of modern post-harvest infrastructure with seamless cold chain, development of modern fishing harbours and fish landing centres, etc. The seafood exports of India have more than doubled since FY 2013-14. While the seafood exports stood at Rs 30,213 crore in 2013-14, the same has increased to Rs. 60,523.89 crore during FY 2023-24. Further, the MPEDA has informed that they have prepared a Vision Document -2030 for the India’s marine products export sector with recommendation to achieve an export turnover of USS$ 18.00 billion by 2030. The details of fish products in the country, State and year-wise during the last five years (2019-20 to 2023-24) is annexed.

 

Annexure

 

Information regarding Fish Production:

             

Item-Wise Export Of Marine Products From India
Q: Quantity in M T, V: Value in Rs. Crore
Item		2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
Frozen Shrimp	Q:	652253	590275	728123	711099	716004
	V:	34152.03	32520.29	42706.04	43135.58	40013.54
Frozen Fish	Q:	223318	188130	226586	368549	381588
	V:	3610.01	2941.65	3471.91	5503.18	5509.69
Fr Cuttle Fish	Q:	70906	59292	58992	54919	54316
	V:	2009.79	1626.34	2062.63	2353.34	2252.63
Fr Squid	Q:	87631	61176	75750	83846	93509
	V:	2196.59	1998.90	2806.09	3593.75	3061.46
Dried Item	Q:	84417	85661	73679	252918	300966
	V:	981.50	1148.38	1472.98	3080.92	4070.60
Live Items	Q:	7287	4379	7032	7824	7585
	V:	324.26	239.69	353.36	440.06	397.84
Chilled Items	Q:	21202	17622	21689	24428	35925
	V:	631.84	477.99	733.47	616.29	687.19
Others	Q:	142638	142975	177414	231703	191709
	V:	2756.84	2767.74	3979.99	5246.03	4530.92
Total	Q:	12,89,651	11,49,510	13,69,264	17,35,286	17,81,602
	V:	46,662.85	43,720.98	57,586.48	63,969.14	60,523.89

 

State-Wise Export of Marine Products From India
Q: Quantity in Tons, V: Value in Rs. Crore
		2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
Gujarat	Q	252712	203917	200099	248863	284088
	V	5001.43	4188.52	4421.10	5466.94	5511.36
Maharashtra	Q	151425	110822	193999	214167	222453
	V	4829.17	3684.94	7303.92	7466.47	6923.34
Goa	Q	21498	16549	36057	63333	55167
	V	520.65	435.25	730.64	1007.60	934.20
Karnataka	Q	111465	121348	120427	312347	301183
	V	1520.10	1689.14	1962.19	4737.23	4785.05
Kerala	Q	163563	157698	182430	218629	196807
	V	5672.27	5623.12	6971.56	8285.03	7231.84
Tamil Nadu	Q	130377	110023	114810	123157	134317
	V	6465.71	5565.48	6559.64	6957.67	6854.22
Andhra Predesh	Q	293314	279992	324904	328160	347927
	V	15498.64	15831.74	20035.49	19846.95	19420.38
Telangana	Q	0	0	3102	6676	11758
	V	0.00	0.00	156.91	358.39	565.10
Odisha	Q	66671	60718	86765	85308	84231
	V	3243.93	3107.68	4627.91	4546.47	3954.60
West Bengal	Q	98626	88443	103398	125025	132318
	V	3910.95	3595.12	4742.47	5121.33	4145.51
Delhi	Q	0	0	766	1083	1294
	V	0.00	0.00	39.00	63.61	79.84
Others	Q	0	0	2507	8536	10058
	V	0.00	0.00	35.64	111.47	118.46
Total	Q	12,89,651	11,49,510	13,69,264	17,35,286	17,81,602
	V	46,662.85	43,720.98	57,586.48	63,969.14	60,523.89

 

This information was given by the Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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