Fishing in a pond in Uttar Pradesh, India

Indian fishermen collect fish and pull their fishing net from a pond in a village of Uttar Pradesh. The state of Uttar Pradesh has vast and varied inland fisheries and aquaculture resources which are at various levels of utilization. Fisheries resources are in the form of network of rivers and rivulets, reservoirs, network of irrigation canals and extensive floodplain wetland. All these are Common or Public Property Resources –CPR/PPR). Aquaculture is mainly practiced in un-drainable simple excavated multi-purpose ponds. Most of these ponds are owned by the government and hence these are CPPs and commonly called as community ponds. There are limited numbers of ponds which are owned by farmers and known as private ponds. There are vast span of water logged areas under the ownership of both, government and private. These are potential areas for aquaculture development by converting into fish ponds and farms. Fisheries sector provides sizable rural livelihoods especially to those who need most – the disadvantaged traditional fishers, farmers and other resource-scarce landless rural communities. Livelihood opportunities is made available through a range of activities such as fishing in open waters; farming of fish in ponds; seed production activities such as hatchery operations, seed rearing and transport of seed; and other ancillary activities . Fishing being largely a seasonal activity, a sizable number of fishers migrate and interphase between rivers and reservoirs, lakes to ponds for fishing and also go elsewhere to get other jobs. Under the situation it is impossible to get an accurate data on employment in fishing activities, however, only a guess estimate could be made by taking fish yield and production and their values into consideration. According to rough estimate of the DoF about 26,000 people are engaged full time in fishing related activities. Equally difficult is to calculate the number engaged in ancillary activities like fish marketing. And as such we have not come to any conclusion on employment in marketing and value chain management and hence data is not included in the report. Compared to capture fisheries it is easy to arrive at employment figure in aquaculture related activities as there are certain known criteria. As per estimates of the DoF currently over 89,000 people are employed in aquaculture, seed production and seed rearing activities. The figures thus suggest that at least over 2.02 lac people are directly engaged in the sector. As per the global review of fish production and employment of the FAO3, the highest concentration of people employed in the primary sector is in Asia where one person is employed for every 2.4 tons of fish produced. On the basis of these criteria also the total number of people employed in the fisheries sector would be 1.8 lac. With the proposed development of fisheries sector it is expected that an additional of 6.3 lac full time employment will be generated. Source : fisheries.up.nic.in This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.