Fisheries governance in the tropical archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar – opinions and strategies for sustainable management

Globally, marine fisheries sector provides livelihood, food security and employment to the fishers engaged in subsistence, artisanal industrial fishing activities. The dependency on fish supplies keeps rising globally leading intense competition, fishery conflicts unsustainable practices which threatens sustainability depletion of resources. Andaman Nicobar Islands (ANI) India is a tropical archipelago cited as an example where resources were considered be highly underutilized vis-a-vis harvestable potential. Developmental plans often envisage enormous scope harness oceanic however, overriding issues affect sustainable management least understood or addressed. Offshore trade economy based whereas small scale are livelihood security-based, operating with medium commercial prospects. Radical approaches essential foster community resilience management. emerging body evidence suggests critical need reliably estimate catches population dynamics for Comprehensive opinions prevailing issues, complexities governance, challenges faced strategies that adopted discussed ensure robust governance sector.