Determinants of Fishermen Migration: Study on A Traditional Marine Fishing Village in Uttara Kannada District

This paper presents a brief report on the factors determining fishermen migration in a traditional fishing village, Karwar in Uttara Kannada district. Fishermen from this village migrate out due to various economic and non-economic reasons. But the most important are the economic considerations. Random sampling technique was used to collect the needed primary information from the migrant households. Various reports and research works were also consulted to know the nature and pattern of fishermen migration. The study found that the migrants are better off than they were before. But this sort of migration may results in undesirable effects on the existing marine fishery resources and marine fishery economy of the native district. Reports say that Uttara Kannada district is endowed with vast marine fishery potentials. Outmigration of active fishermen from the district might cause underutilization and wastage of the scarce marine fishery potentials of Uttara Kannada coast.