page_title: Fishing in India
section_title: Distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Fishing in India / Distribution
caption_attribution_description: English: Vellayil Fishing Harbour, Kerala, India
context_page_description: Fishing in India is a major industry employing 14.5 million people. India ranks second in aquaculture and third in fisheries production. Fisheries contributes to 1.07% of the Total GDP of India. According to the National Fisheries Development Board the Fisheries Industry generates an export earnings of Rs 334.41 billion. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, fish production has increased more than tenfold since 1947 and doubled between 1990 and 2010.Each year, India celebrates July 10 as the National Fish Farmers day.
  India has 7,500 kilometres of marine coastline, 3,827 fishing villages and 1,914 traditional fish landing centers. India's fresh water resources consist of 195,210 kilometres of rivers and canals, 2.9 million hectares of minor and major reservoirs, 2.4 million hectares of ponds and lakes, and about 0.8 million hectares of flood plain wetlands and water bodies. As of 2010, the marine and freshwater resources offered a combined sustainable catch fishing potential of over 4 million metric tonnes of fish.
context_section_description: There are five main fishing harbors at Mangalore (Karnataka), Kochi (Kerala), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and Raichak in Kolkata (West Bengal). 23 minor fishing harbours and 95 fish-landing centres are designated to provide landing and berthing facilities to fishing craft.
caption: Vellayil Fishing Harbour
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