Abstract
 GIS: Vital Tool for Fisheries Resource Management Track: Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management Author(s): Madhavi Pikle, Sunit Charatkar Fisheries continue to be a thrust area of India's development programs due to their very important contributions to employment generation, food security and foreign exchange earnings. There is a need for assessment of fisheries ecosystems, environmental problems due to prevalence of various activities and management needed. With a view to have a systematic approach, studies, such as coastline changes and their effect on coastal life, mangrove mapping and change detection, mapping of salt-affected and waterlogged areas for aquaculture, site selection for brackish water aquacuture, have been carried out using ArcGIS. Mangrove mapping of Mumbai showed 39.42 percent decrease in area of mangroves during 1990-2001. Brackish water aquauclture site selection showed 9.873 percent is suitable from the total study area. A study of shoreline changes of Mumbai coast gives around 26 km2 accretion and 1.1 km2 erosion from 1966 to 2002. GIS proved to be a vital tool for sustainable development and utilization of fisheries resources. Madhavi Pikle Central Institute of Fisheries Education Computer Division Fisheries University Road, Versova, Andheri (W) Mumbai , null 400061 IN Phone: 91-022-26361446 Fax: 91-022-26361573 E-mail: madhavipikle@yahoo.co.in Sunit Charatkar Nucleus Netsoft and GIS India(LTD) GIS Opposite L& T gate no 7 Saki Vihar Road Mumbai , Maharashtra 400072 IN Phone: 91-022-2876916 E-mail: sunit1301@rediffmail.com,sunit1301@gmail.com |
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