Fishing

Areas Types

River ,lakes &fish Sea Marine Inland fishing

ponds /ocean fishing &Aquaculture
 Economic Benefit

0.9% GDP Earning 6%of the

foreign exchange

-The number of people Marine catch

employed is 3times Uses of fish
greater than
395,000 Food supply
inland catch
-125,000 involved in Fish waste
marine fishing used in
- 270,000 involved in fertilizer
inland fishing production
Quantity
Oil extraction
Quality
Efficient fishing
techniques
30% is Sindh coast
70% is Makkran coast
 • Fishing main food component
• Traditional fishing methods
Subsistence used, small wooden-boats, small
nets
fishing • Resulting in small catch
• Unreliable source of income

• Traditional fishing methods

used, small wooden-boats, small
nets-------5km in sea.
Commercial • Modern fishing methods are
fishing used
• Gill nets and mechanized boats
are used 50-60 km in he sea
 Sharks
Processing
Karachi Croakers
and
Harbour Skates
Preservation
Koranghi Drum
harbour Storage Cat fish
facilities
Rays
Sindh Makkran
coast coast
Karachi Gwader

Numerous creeks Recent infrastructural

development
Sheltered harbours
along the Makkran
Shallow sea
coast
Wider continentals
Omara
shelf
Pasni
Indus delta rich in sea
food Gwader
Export and processing
facilities
Gillnet fishing
 Developing fisheries in
Gwader

Major population of
Gwader district linked
directly or indirectly with
fishing industry

1/4th of the total catch
comes from Gwader
Fishing equipment
Fishing done through out
Net, nylon ropes, floats
he year ,&winches
Small fisher men avoid
fishing from May –
September
Also he breeding season
of fish Small boats- 1day trip
Big boats 5-15 day trip
 Fish processing at Gwader

Salting and drying

16 ice factories in all Fish canning done in Karachi

1970 –department of Coastal
development &Fisheries 6in Gwader; Unhygienic canning factories
established the 1st ice factory banned for import in European
2 in sur Bandar; 2 in Pasni;and 3 countries & other developed
Private ice factory -1976 in Ormara countries
 Fish hawkers
Local market
Frozen /canned/ processed fish
Departmental stores
Less domestic use

Fish market

Domestic use
1.6kg p.a
European -20kg p.a

30% catch exported

80% export is to Middle Eastern
countries
 Greater
return to
the
fisherman

Reduces
burden on Increase in
crops & employment
live-stock Socio-
economic
benefit of
fish farming

Increase in Use of
GDP/raise technology&
in foreign up-grading
reserves of skill
 Ecological
change/
pervasive
damage to
land

Positive impact Coastal wet-

Animal waste,
domestic waste,
Fish farming lands turned
into fish ponds
sewerage water
are organic
components-
& ;resulting in to
damage to
considered good
for fish ponds
Environment marine
ecosystem

Chemical
pollution
 Water
pollution

Lack of
financial Over fishing
resource

Threat to
mangroves
 Sustainable
fisheries

Few efforts
Water
made by
pollution
government

Over fishing
Destruction of by foreign
mangroves trawlers/local
fishermen

Catching of Use of illegal

baby fish nets
 Promoting
Advantages fish food
of sustainable resulting in
Improved fisheries
infrastructure good health-
high in
nutritional
value

Development
of related
industries
Boat building Increase in
, net making , employment
processing .
Refrigeration,
ice industry

Introducing
technology;
satellite Training &
navigation; Increase in
eduction of GDP/ Foreign
use of gillnet fishermen - reserves
Use of help in raising
shoaling- the status of
locating fish fishing
communities