Fish output in the region elevated by six.six per cent to 134.22 lakh tonnes (lt) in 2018-19, as towards a hundred twenty five.9 lt in 2017-eighteen, as per provisional estimates, Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Giriraj Singh advised the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Andhra Pradesh, with a mixed marine and inland fish output of 39.92 lt, not only remained the leading fish developing Condition, but also elevated its output by 15.7 per cent over the earlier year’s 34.50 lt. West Bengal, which is ranked the 2nd, elevated the output marginally to seventeen.70 lt.
Considerably, Odisha pipped Gujarat to