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Tuna is the third largest internationally traded fish commodity, which contributes about
9% of the total trade in value terms. It includes the principal market tunas used for
canning and sashimi, the raw fish regarded as delicacy in Japan and increasingly, in
several other countries. The Indian EEZ alone has a resource potential of 0.21 million
tonnes of tuna, of which the present exploitation is only around 0.05 million tonnes.
Exploitation of tuna resources is identified as one of the thrust areas for increasing
export of Indian marine products.
About 23,800 tonnes was exported to European Union, South-East Asian countries,
Japan and West Asia in 2006-07 realising over Rs 1300 million. Product forms
exported from India include mainly frozen, dried, chilled and canned tuna. Improved
harvest and post-harvest handling and processing technologies are required for
enhancement of production and exports of high value product forms such as sashimi
grade tuna and tuna based value added products.
Though India has an active coastal tuna fishery, deep sea tuna fishing activities is in a
nascent phase. Purse seine, pelagic longline, pole and line, gill net, handline and troll
line are the important commercial fishing methods for catching tunas. There have been
several initiatives in India to increase tuna production, including popularisation of the
conversion of the existing fishing vessels to tuna long liners, in recent years.
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Society of Fisheries Technologists (India)
P.O. Matsyapuri, Cochin-682 029, India
Phone : 0484-2666845 Extn: 333
Fax : 0484-2668212
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