NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN'S


	DATA BANK

Nationwide Survey on Database Fisheries Cooperatives:

Fishery in India is an important part of our economy. There are over 27 thousand functional primary fisheries cooperative societies having a membership of around 39.46 lakh fishers in the country, who are socially, economically and educationally backward. They need skill up-gradation to enable themselves to use at least medium technology in the field of fisheries and also need education for their managers/members of fishermen cooperatives to run their societies smoothly in a viable way. Therefore, there is an immense scope and need to help them by giving them identification in the mainstream of social strata. In many states there is no exact census of fishers. It has been observed that there are many unidentified and unorganized fishers in the country who are deprived of the benefits of various schemes sanctioned by the Government of India as well as the State Governments. Our objective is to organize them.

The Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Department of Fisheries, Government of India had assigned a task to collect the data of primary fisheries cooperatives alongwith the details of their status, membership and facilities available with these cooperatives. FISHCOPFED took the challenge and completed nationwide survey of primary fisheries cooperatives. The computerized data report has also been prepared. FISHCOPFED has also prepared database for all functional fishery cooperatives. Details are as under:

Structure of the Fisheries Co-operative Sector

FISHERY CO-OPERATIVES IN INDIA

Name of the State / UT	Number of Societies (level)				No. of members
Name of the State / UT	State Level	Regional Level	District Level	Primary Level	No. of members
Andhra Pradesh	1		13	2810	286410
Arunachal Pradesh				19	230
Assam	1		2	600	90000
Bihar	1		5	528	410007
Chhattisgarh	1		5	1685	55685
Goa				26	1503
Gujarat	1			701	94893
Haryana				148	1276
Himachal Pradesh				73	9742
Jharkhand	1			650	32635
Karnataka	1		2	714	482115
Kerala	1			990	460486
M.P.	1			2773	96817
Maharashtra	1	2	36	3775	332636
Manipur	1	1	3	800	14258
Meghalaya	1			139	611
Mizoram	1		1	47	1656
Nagaland	1			385	9234
Odisha	1	6		775	154318
Punjab			1	9	95
Rajasthan	1		1	147	4130
Sikkim				10	230
Tamil Nadu	1		12	1475	761521
Telangana	1		10	5340	372901
Tripura	1			308	22967
UP	1		23	1125	54521
Uttarakhand	1		1	170	1558
West Bengal	1		20	1433	131578
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	1		1	129	4149
Daman and Diu				19	3176
Lakshadweep				22	2910
Jammu & Kashmir			1	11	162
Puducherry	1		1	69	72162
Ladakh				1	21
Total	24	9	138	27906	3966572