{"id":7940,"date":"2022-11-22T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:24:56","slug":"world-fisheries-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-fisheries-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Fisheries Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Fisheries Day:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World Fisheries Day is celebrated on 21st November every year<\/strong>\u00a0to demonstrate solidarity with all fisher folk, fish farmers and concerned stakeholders throughout the world.<\/li>\n<li>It started in 1997 where \u201cWorld Forum of Fish Harvesters &amp; Fish Workers\u201d met at New Delhi leading to formation of \u201cWorld Fisheries Forum\u201d with representatives from 18 countries and signed a declaration advocating for a global mandate of sustainable fishing practices and policies.<\/li>\n<li>The event aims to draw attention to overfishing, habitat destruction and other serious threats to the sustainability of our marine and freshwater resources.<\/li>\n<li>The celebrations serve to focus on changing the way the world manages global fisheries to ensure sustainable stocks and healthy ecosystems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojna (PMMSY):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a flagship scheme focused on the development of the fisheries sector and doubling the incomes of fishers and fish farmers.<\/li>\n<li>It is announced as a part of the\u00a0<strong>Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan in May 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The scheme is an Umbrella scheme for various other government initiatives and projects by the Government in the fisheries sector.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme aims for the\u00a0<strong>adoption of \u2018Cluster or Area-based Approaches\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0and ultimately creating fisheries clusters through backward and forward linkages.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme targets enhancement in fish production by an additional 70 lakh tonne and increase fisheries export earnings\u00a0<strong>to 1,00,000 crore by 2024-25.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The scheme also envisioned\u00a0<strong>generating employment opportunities<\/strong>\u00a0through seaweed and ornamental fish cultivation and to bring new interventions such as fishing vessel insurance, support for upgradation of fishing vessels\/boats, integrated aqua parks, e-trading\/marketing, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1877785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Fisheries Day is celebrated on 21st November every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}