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Nation 3 years of PM Matsya Sampada Yojana

PMMSY AT A GLANCE

14,687 6.77 lakh fishing families A 2022 study of marine fish
stocks available in Indian
given assistance
during the period of waters indicates that more
hectares of
the ban on fishing.
inland pond than 91% of the 135 fish
area for stocks remain available.
5,000 arranged for
aquaculture vehicles were
6,241 transporting fish.

5,475 fishing boats
Retail fish
markets and were replaced.
kiosks opened
1,945 Ornamental fish

farming units started.
468
429
Deep Sea Fishing Cold Storage
Vessels Cleared;
Procurement
68 lakh jobs creation by
Started
16 2024–25 envisaged

ships, and empowerment of women in patterned
lakh estimated crore. Worth
beneficiaries, 14,683 proposals approved fish farming and seaweed business.
both directly and till August 2, 2023. Only Rs 3,682 crore has been invested in
indirectly. this sector since independence until 2014.
Simultaneously, with a budget allocation of Rs
30,572 crore from 2014 to 2024-2025, including
of Sirsa and said that while this effort brings out PMMSY, the Blue Revolution Scheme, and the
the benefits of the PM Matsya Sampada Yojana, Fisheries Infrastructural Development Fund, work
it is also a symbol of women's empowerment. The is being done to increase fish farmers' income
fish sector employs approximately 2.8 crore people through infrastructure and assistance. In the last
in India, the world's largest producer of prawns and three years alone, projects worth Rs 14,655 crore
third-largest producer of fish. When Prime Minister have been sanctioned under PMMSY, with over 16
Narendra Modi took office in 2014, he pledged to lakh beneficiaries. Fish production has an effective
double farmers' income. PMMSY was launched growth rate that exceeds 9%.
on September 10, 2020, with Rs 20,050 crore In 2018-19, the Government of India created
until 2024-25, by including the blue revolution in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure
increasing farmer income for the first time in the Development Fund with an outlay of approximately
country after the green and white revolutions. Rs 7,522 crore, from which infrastructure projects
PMMSY is strengthening infrastructure in the totaling approximately Rs 5,589 crore were
fisheries sector. Profitability has increased in sanctioned. The existing fisheries and aquaculture
tandem with the increase in new opportunities. system, which has enormous potential, has
With new technology and new methods (RAS, increased seafood exports from 1.15 million metric
biofloc, and cage culture) in the scheme, fish tonnes in 2020-2021 to 1.51 million metric tonnes
productivity is constantly increasing. The scheme in 2021-2022. India is the world's fourth-largest
includes insurance for the safety of fish farmers seafood exporter, exporting to 112 countries. India
and business owners, insurance for fish-related exports prawns to 125 countries.

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