There is an urgent need for major investment in policy and management approaches that address the direct and indirect drivers of aquatic ecosystem degradation and loss of inland fisheries taking into account their role in sustainable development and human well being. The UNEP Ecosystem Management Programme (UNEP-EMP) provides an effective framework for pursuing this challenge.
In India, the number of those employed in these fishery-related jobs is some four times the number of those who fish. In India more than fifty per cent of those employed in inland fisheries are women, who generally spend more of their income on family needs, including providing food and medicine.
The report highlights the integrative ecosystem approach to inland fisheries and as per it, the policy implications of this include the need to -
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