{"id":34600,"date":"2018-10-31T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34600"},"modified":"2018-10-31T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:38:20","slug":"india-acts-against-bottom-trawling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-acts-against-bottom-trawling\/","title":{"rendered":"India acts against bottom trawling:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/india-acts-against-bottom-trawling\/article19864138.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India acts against bottom trawling<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India informed Sri Lanka that it has taken measures to stop bottom trawling by its fishermen in the waters near the Sri Lankan coastline. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is bottom trawling?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bottom trawling is an <\/span><b>ecologically destructive practice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The practice involves trawlers dragging weighted nets along the sea-floor, causing great depletion of aquatic resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bottom trawling captures juvenile fish, thus exhausting the ocean\u2019s resources and affecting marine conservation efforts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is deep fishing?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deep fishing is an <\/span><b>eco-friendly practice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea\/ocean is called deep-sea fishing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is practiced worldwide, especially in the coastal areas with no ecological damage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the initiatives to prevent bottom trawling in India?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent initiatives taken by the Government of India to end bottom trawling in the Palk Bay area include:<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The launch of a programme on diversification of bottom trawlers into deep-sea fishing vessels for tuna long lining under the <\/span><b>Blue Revolution Scheme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Construction of harbors<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like, Mookaiyur and Poompuhar fishing harbors,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Capacity-building programmes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for fishermen of the Palk Bay area in deep sea tuna long lining and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Fresh registration for bottom trawlers in the Palk Bay area has been banned<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Government of Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India also recently informed that schemes <\/span><b>promoting seaweed farming and sea-cage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> farming have begun in the Palk Bay area to wean away fishermen from deep-sea trawling.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is Blue Revolution Scheme?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Blue Revolution Scheme by the government of India aims to create an environment for integrated development of the full potential of fisheries of the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with substantially improvement in the income status of fishers and fish farmers keeping in view the sustainability, biosecurity and environmental concerns.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the disputes between India and Sri Lanka?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>The maritime boundary agreements of 1974 and 1976<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were concluded by the two governments did not reflect realities on the ground.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ongoing dispute has escalated tensions between those fishermen using traditional methods and those using mechanized methods leading to increase in the infringement of territorial boundaries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue of <\/span><b>fishermen straying in each other\u2019s territorial waters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has come as a potential irritant in the bilateral relations between the neighboring states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is <\/span><b>no well-defined boundary line<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between the two nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Overuse of mechanized trawlers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Palk Bay has further Fueled the dispute over Kachchatheevu.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the way ahead?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The solution lies in <\/span><b>transition from trawling to deep-sea fishing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Making the use of trawling technique an offence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Indian government is another solution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Permitting licensed Indian fishermen to <\/span><b>fish within a designated area<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Sri Lankan waters and vice versa.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is an evident <\/span><b>need for institutionalization of fisherman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Indian waters by the government of India so that alternative means of livelihood are provided.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government needs to mark up a <\/span><b>comprehensive plan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to reduce the necessity of Indian fishermen on catch from Palk Bay.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India acts against bottom trawling:\u00a0 Context: India informed Sri Lanka that it has taken measures to stop bottom trawling by its fishermen in the waters near the Sri Lankan coastline. 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