03.11.08 Fisheries Trade in India: Understanding Potentials and Barriers
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This paper examines production, trade and policies related to the seafood sector in India.
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This paper is a contribution to the project ”International trade regulating organisations and South East Asian regionalisation of trade agreements”, undertaken jointly by NORUT (Northern Research Institute, Tromsø), the University of Stavanger and NUPI; also with the participation of FHL (Norwegian Seafood Federation) and EFF (Norwegian Seafood Export Council). Financial support from the Norwegian Research Council, project no. 177974/I10, and co-funding from EFF and FHL, is gratefully acknowledged.
Meenakshi Rajeev, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, was a visiting fellow at NUPI in 2007 and she then agreed to write this paper focusing on India’s fisheries sector. Such a paper seemed particularly relevant in the light of the upcoming negotiations between EFTA (the European Free Trade Association) and India about a free trade agreement, where the first round of negotiations was held in October 2008. Trade in seafood is an important issue for both parties, and the sector is important for the livelihoods in some of India’s regions. This paper examines production, trade and policies related to the seafood sector in India, and we hope it will provide useful background information for the free trade negotiations as well as for increased economic cooperation between Norway, EFTA and India. We thank Meenakshi Rajeev for her efforts and timely completion of the paper, which also contributes to the realisation of NUPI’s plans for extended research cooperation with India.
Oslo, 21 October 2008.
Arne Melchior
Project manager, NUPI
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