Current Scenario of Marine Fish Marketing in Tamilnadu

Seafood is an excellent food because it is rich in nutrients. It has the best and notch protein which supplies essential amino acids. It is easily digestible as it has very little connective tissue. It gives many nutrients which the human beings need, without worrisome amount of fats. The small amount of fats present in seafood is not the surprising one if any one says that the intake of seafood is the nutritional insurance, the problem of protein gap in food is much more acute in populous country like India with chronic food shortage and malnutrition and the diet of a large number of masses constitutes cereals which contains carbohydrates to a major extent and other inferior type of food. Fisheries have been the traditional avocation of the coastal fishing communities and a source of income for over 100 million people across the world. The sector is expected to play a major role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)-a set of goals aimed at halving the number of people living below poverty line by 2015 (FMSP, 2006).