FISHERY

Last Updated on: July 30, 2022

RESOURCES

The island has large numbers of wetlands, river and rivulets, which constitute important fisheries resources for the people. There are with enormous potentiality in the form of flood prone wet lands, low lying area, derelict water bodies, large number of community tanks and other small home stead ponds in the district which provides scope for nutritional security, fish production as well as employment generation. Most of such areas become temporary water bodies in rainy season, holding water for a period of 6 -8 months. The capture ponds are naturally stocked during floods and culture ponds are used for aquaculture.

Table- 1 Different water resources available in Majuli.

SI NO.	Resources	Water spread area in ha
1	River Fisheries 4 nos	330 km
2	Registered Beel (9 Nos.)	379.0
3	Un Registered Beel	640.0
4	Derelict water bodies, swamps	2388.0
5	Ponds &Tanks 3534 nos	696.0
6	AFDC Beel (7 Nos.)	362.0
7	Paddy field, canals and low lying areas	3949.0
8	Wet land / small beel	51.0

Table -2 Fish Farm in Govt. Sector

SI NO	Name of the Farm	Water area in ha.	Any Scope for Development	Remarks
1	Rawnapara Fish Farm	4.0	Prop. For dev. For signature project.	Defunct stage
2	Kamalabari Fish	1.0	Reclamation to be done for culture.	Defunct stage
Total		5.0

Table-3 Total Existing Culture area and most practicing culture practice.

Resources

Water area in ha.

Culture Practice

Ponds and Tanks

696.0

Capture area (ha)

Traditional culture area (ha)

Scientific culture area (ha)

Pig cum Fish culture area (ha)

696

420

246

30.0

Traditionally Fishery has been associated with poor and illiterate a person who belongs to the weaker sections of the society. Only a fraction of water areas has been utilized under scientific fish culture method. Out of 30.0 ha Pig cum Fish Culture area only 10.0 ha water areas has been utilized under Scientific Culture method.

Table-4 Fish Seed Production and Requirement during the last four years

Year	Fish Seed production (Nos in lakhs)	Requirement of Fish Seed (Nos in lakhs)	Remarks
2019-20	6.5	27.0	Fry-Fingerlings brought from other dist. And rearing of seed. Hapa breeding and hatchery operation carried out in the dist.
2020-21	6.8	29.8
2021-22	36	45.0
2022-23	30	55.0

Table-5 Fish Production and Nutritional demand during the last four years.

Year	Fish Production (MT)	Nutritional Demand of Fish (MT)	Remarks
2018-19	3304	2890	Natural production greatly reduced in beels and wet land due to flood protection devices.
2019-20	3417	2960
2020-21	5417	3454
2021-22	3521	3635

There is good demand of Fish in the island. The major part of fish catch of Majuli has sent to Jorhat and Golaghat market. The fish caught in the morning has sent to Jorhat and fish caught in the evening are sold locally within Majuli district. Fish did not come to Majuli from outside states except in the lean period.

Scope of natural fishery resources development such as beel.

Majuli is endowed with potential rich fisheries resources in the form of wetlands, Dead River, etc. Majuli is also rich in diverse ichthyofauna with almost all fresh water species available in the state. The beels of the Majuli district can be categorized as small beels less than 100 ha water area. Only 10% of beels of Majuli are in good condition and rest is in derelict and semi derelict condition. Mainly unregistered beels are in small size and not in good condition at all. Present yield from the beels are 450 kg/ha/yr (average) which is far below than their production potential.

Beels are very rich in nutrients and have a great production potential. Some of the beels of Majuli Island are perennial and these water bodies can be stocked in the month of Oct-Nov and fish can be harvested in the month of March-April.

Development of beel fisheries is important because of it provides source of livelihood to many families. Moreover it has high production capacity up to 1000 kg/ha/yr and also beels act as breeding and nursery ground of many fishes.

IMPLEMENTATION OF PMMSY SCHEMS OF DIFERENT ACTIVITIES for the yr. 2020-21.

Name of Component & Work	Target in (Ha/unit) (DLC approved)	Total no. of Benf	Total estimated Cost Rs. In Lakhs	Total no of Benf. Completed	Physical Progress
Construction of Pond & Estb. Of Fish Seed Hatchery	1 no	1 no	25.0	1 no	100%
Construction of Pond & Estb. Of Fish Seed Hatcher	7.0 Ha.	31 nos.	49.00	22 nos.	70%
Construction of New Pond (individual	15 Ha.	59 nos	186.00	54 Nos	91%
Inputs for Integrated Fish Farming	18 Ha.	74 nos	18.00	48 nos	65%
Small Bio Floc	3 nos	3 nos	22.5	3 nos	70%
Motorcycle with ice-box	4 nos	4 nos	3.00	4 nos	100%
Cycle with ice-box	4 nos	4 nos	0.40	4 nos	100%
Boats and Nets for Fishers	1 nos	1 nos	5.00	1 no	50%
Livelihoods support for Fishers	1200 nos	1200 nos	54.0	1200	100%

IMPLEMENTATION OF PMMSY SCHEMS OF DIFERENT ACTIVITIES for the yr. 2021-22.

Name of Component & Work	Target in (Ha/unit) (DLC approved)	Total no. of Benf	Total estimated Cost Rs. In Lakhs	Total no of Benf. Completed	Physical Progress
construction of New Rearing Tank(Individual)	3.0 Ha.	28 nos.	21.00	1 no	4%
Construction of New Pond (individual)	3.0 Ha.	12 nos	25.20	1 no	8%
Inputs for Integrated Fish Farming	6.0 Ha.	38 nos	6.00	0	0%
Small Bio Floc	2 nos	2 nos	15.0	0	0%
Motorcycle with ice-box	3 nos	3 nos	2.25	0	0%
Cycle with ice-box	12 nos	12 nos	1.20	0	0%
Recreational Fisheries	1 nos	1 nos	50.00	0	0%
Stocking of Fish fingerlings in wet land	6.0 ha	20 nos	0.18	0	0%