Union Minister for Fisheries Rajiv Ranjan Singh said present connected Saturday that the Centre has initiated steps to unafraid planetary eco-labelling tag for Lakshadweep tuna fisheries utilizing accepted sportfishing methods.
The authorities volition instrumentality steps to get globally recognised eco-labelling certification for the pole-and-line and hand-line tuna fisheries of Lakshadweep that person debased biology interaction and affirmative societal benefits, helium said astatine a consultative gathering present connected the improvement of fisheries assemblage successful Lakshadweep, with a peculiar absorption connected tuna fisheries, seaweed and ornamental fisheries.
The Minister said that the determination aims to beforehand the sustainability of these accepted sportfishing methods, providing marketplace entree and premium prices for eco-certified tuna products. With due certification and marketplace access, Lakshadweep tuna tin fetch premium prices, benefiting artisanal fishers successful the archipelago, helium was quoted arsenic saying successful a release.
Referring to the government’s program connected heavy oversea fishing, the Union Minister said ineligible instruments for enabling sustainable fisheries successful the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and High Seas are nether mode successful consultation with the coastal states and UTs. Lakshadweep Administrator one Praful Patel highlighted that 4,000 quadrate metre lagoon successful Lakshadweep holds immense imaginable for seaweed cultivation, offering caller avenues to amended the livelihoods of islanders, according to the release.
Union Minister of State for Fisheries George Kurian, and Union Fisheries Secretary Abhilaksh Likhi spoke.
