Fisheries Development in India the Pollitical Economy of Sustainable Development

Sustainable development of fisheries in India is a major concern for the public, the industry as well as the administration as it contributes significantly to the national economy to food supply, employment, earnings, foreign exchange, public revenue, regional development, recreation, social welfare etc. Nonetheless the sustainability of Indian fisheries, like most other nations’ fisheries is threatened by a number of ecological,economics, social, cultural, institutional and technological constraints. This book explores the sustainability issues of Indian fisheries at lenght and suggests ‘standard’ global prescription for sustainable development. It however, comes to the conclusion that such solutions are unlikely to bring about sustainability because of many interactions, interdependencies and externalities in the economy, all of which remind one about the working of the ‘impossibility theorem’ in poor countries.