Nutritive value of fermented traditional foods of India

Abstract :

India is fourth place in fish production in the world; it has been exporting fishery items to many foreign countries. India's fish landing has been enhanced to 4.6 per cent after mechanization was introduced. Mechanisation in fishing includes the trawler, the purse seiner and the gill netter. Among them the trawler and purse seiner are the vessels that destroy the marine ecology in the form of exploiting the by-catch. The exploitation of by-catch in the trawling is unavoidable. Its market value is very less and some species do not posses any monetary value, but they are very much needed to maintain the balanced marine environment. This paper an attempt has been made to highlight amount of the by-catch exploitation in the trawling.