1600 km of Gujarat. 260 villages in 14 districts in the vast coastal area are dependent on marine fisheries and 798 villages in the inland areas, a total of 1058 villages are involved in fisheries.
Gujarat’s contribution to India’s total marine fish production in 2022-23 was 15.86%. Exports were 1.3 lakh metric tonnes in 2001-02, which has increased to 2.85 lakh metric tonnes in 2022-23. Gujarat’s share in the total export of fish products of the country is 16.42%.
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There will be 33 fish landing centers at a cost of Rs 855 crore and berthing, landing, lighting, internal roads, toilet blocks and water-related infrastructure at five fish ports at a cost of Rs 1307.02 crore for the port. Fisherman.
As of 2020-21 there are 14 ice plants and cold storages.
There are 30 insulated and refrigerated vehicles for handling the fish.
In the last two years, 467 fishermen have been released from Pakistani jails. Assistance on procurement of GPS (Global Position System) for fishermen and intensive monitoring through online boat token software is being done by the Department of Fisheries.
Rs 205.41 crore for facilities of fisheries centres. In which maintenance, management, infrastructure works, dredging, drainage and floating jetty, renovation will be done in Umarsadi and Chorwad.
Kosamba, Tadgam, Kalai, Magod-Dungri, Umargam, Maroli, Phansa, Nargol, Khatalwada, Danti, Bhatt/Rana of Navsari district, Krishnapura, Vanshi-Borsi, Onjal, Kotda, Mool-Dwarka, Seemar of Gir-Somnath district, Fish landing centers at Sikka in Jamnagar district, Bet-Dwarka in Devbhoomi Dwarka district, Mahuva in Bhavnagar district, Navlakhi in Morbi district, Koteshwar in Kutch district, Luni, Mandvi and Mangrol Bara in Junagadh district will be modernized.
Rs 338 crore with NABARD loan to develop four new perennial fishery ports Navbandar, Veraval-II, Madhwad and Sutrapara in the state.
Diesel VAT subsidy of Rs 332.54 crore has been provided till the end of January 2023-24.
463.30 crore in 2024-25 for VAT/tax exemption.
Assistance on kerosene/petrol Rs 8 crore.
Rs 56.66 crore to provide modern equipment, safety and profitable production to fishermen.
8.78 crore for development of inland fisheries.
The system of manually allotting fishing tokens to fishing boats, which was in force, has been replaced by the Department of Fisheries, which is important for national security. To issue tokens online from 1st April-2022 Software has been developed. For services like registration of fishing boats, fishing license, change of ownership, earlier fishing boat owners had to apply to the concerned district office with all the necessary documents. With the launch of completely paperless online boat registration service through this account from June-2022, fishermen no longer need to visit the office. Digital certificate is also made available online. Diesel VAT relief is credited to the bank account. The completely paperless I Khedut module is effective from July 2022. All applications are completely paperless i.e. financial approval is done online from the applicant’s application. Minister of State for Agriculture Bachchu Khabad said these things.
On 19 February 2024, the budgetary demands of the Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Department were approved in the Assembly Building.