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Q.Give economic importance of fishery.

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Fishery supplies nutritious food, valuable by-products (fish oil, fish meal, fertiliser, fish glue, isinglass) used across several industries, and provides large-scale employment and self-employment.

Step 1. Food value. Fishery supplies fish and other aquatic animals — prawns, lobsters, oysters, mussels, crabs — as a nutritious food source, farmed or caught across inland, marine and estuarine waters.

Step 2. By-products. Beyond direct food value, fishery yields a number of commercially valuable by-products: fish oil, fish meal, fertiliser, fish guano, fish glue and isinglass, which are widely used in industries such as paints, soaps, other oils and medicine. …

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