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• Tantiapal fish landing center : Tantiapal is<br />

situated along the side of the Hansua river near<br />

Kollipur in Mahakalpada Block of District<br />

Kendrapara. It is located about 3 km. upstream<br />

of the mouth of river Hansua. There is a saline<br />

embankment to protect the hinterland from<br />

floods. There are about 822 active fishermen<br />

out of a population of 4466. There are about 30<br />

mechanised crafts operating from Tantiapal.<br />

The estimated project cost is RS.60.40 lakhs.<br />

All the boats operating from this base will access<br />

the sea through the core of the Gahirmatha<br />

Marine Sanctuary and adversely affect the sea<br />

turtles.<br />

State, district and area fishing profile<br />

Table8 :ImportantSpeciesofMarineflsh CatchfromOrissa<br />

coast (MT)<br />

S.No. Species/group 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94<br />

1. Prawn 4314 5025 3580<br />

2. Pomfret 4350 5169 6299<br />

3. Hilsa 5973 6001 6<strong>06</strong>4<br />

4. Polynemids 1311 3216 3156<br />

5. Clupeids 4332 3757 1627<br />

6. Sciaenids 9512 9534 12490<br />

7. Catfish 10396 7663 6020<br />

6. Elasmobranchs 5619 10260 7252<br />

9. Other varieties 49219 66549 55215<br />

Total 95026 119376 103925<br />

S.No. Species/group 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97<br />

1. Prawn 5676 6211 6656<br />

2. Pomfret 6520 7527 6676<br />

3. Hilsa 4545 5~96 6365<br />

4. Polynemids 1919 2290 2975<br />

5. Clupeids 7403 3912 5050<br />

6. Sciaenids 16304 16133 16150<br />

7. Catfish 6194 7056 7346<br />

6. Elasmobranchs 9126 6354 6496<br />

9. Other varieties 61001 66116 69626<br />

Total 122692 123199 133462<br />

Source: Handbook on Dsneries slatlslles. Orissa 199&-97-<br />

Directorate of Fisheries. Gov'. olOrlsSJl? Cuttllck. 138 pp<br />

The table above gives an indication to the wealth<br />

of fish resources harvested by the coastal<br />

population of Orissa. A district wise breakup of the<br />

catch is given below. The table indicates that<br />

Balasore and Kendrapara are the two districts<br />

with a higher catch in comparison to the other<br />

districts in the past few years.<br />

185<br />

Table9:DistrictwiseMarineflsh Landings(MT)<br />

for Orissa state<br />

Bhitarkanika<br />

DislJicl 1985-66 1986-67 1987-68 1966-69 1969-90 1990-91<br />

6aIasore 23699 26139 24916 26349 40799 32502<br />

Bhadrak - _. _. -<br />

Cut1ack 13346 1 167<strong>06</strong> 19236 23635 28734<br />

Kendrapara ... 19933417 ... .. - ...<br />

Jagatsinghpur ... - .. .-<br />

Puri 9966 - 7537 8111 8005 10339<br />

Ganjam 6570 9803 8799 6424 5456 6617<br />

5965<br />

Talal 53581 55324 59960 60120 77695 78192<br />

District 1991.92 1992-92 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97<br />

6aIasore 3722 53793 25320 31736 33153 35491<br />

8hadrak<br />

Cut1ack<br />

.-<br />

34576<br />

-<br />

42946<br />

7856<br />

...<br />

16244<br />

...<br />

9202<br />

.<br />

9903<br />

Kendrapara - .- 13479 14172 16518 20405<br />

Jagatsinghpu - ... 32309 30877 35372 35085<br />

Puri 17194 16979 18853 23926 22573 26569<br />

Ganjam 6036 5658 6108 5937 6361 6009<br />

Talal 95026 119376 103925 122892 123199 133462<br />

Source: Handbook on fisheries statistics. Orissa 1996-97.<br />

Directorate 01 Fisheries.<br />

GON. 01 Orissa, Cuttack. 198 pp.<br />

Information of fish catch is available for<br />

Kendrapara since its inception in 1993. The table<br />

shows that the fish catch is steadily increasing in<br />

Kendrapara, Balasore and Jagatsinghpur<br />

districts.<br />

Table10:Species-wiseMarineflshingLanding(MT)<br />

for Kendrapara<br />

S.Mo Species (1998-99) (1999-2000) (2000-2001)<br />

,. Shall< 662 825 69.15<br />

2. 5_ 353 13B 122.9<br />

3. R¥ 2<strong>06</strong> 411 20.2<br />

4. Oil sardine 956 137 144.43<br />

5 Othersardine 250 825 163.3<br />

6 Hilsashad 824 550 818.25<br />

7 Othershad 574 412 84.3<br />

8 Thrissocles 412 1 -<br />

9 Anchovies 471 1 -<br />

10. Other clupeids 609 1 1304.98<br />

11 Harpodon nehereus 103 13 339.85<br />

12. Chirocentrus (silver bar) 324 410 44.2<br />

13. Polynemids 427 550 7.B<br />

14. Chorinemus 235 413 -<br />

15. Ribbon fish(Trichiuridae) 574 275 647.47<br />

16. Garangids 368 1050 15.5<br />

17. Indian mackerel 500 - 3.1<br />

18. Other_ - 13B 6<br />

19. S.commerson - 275 -

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