Fisheries subsidies in India are a long standing topic on it’s role in the development of fisheries, type of fisheries and which fishworkersbenefit from government resources, especially the share that small scale and artisanal fishworkers receive from them. Subsidies andschemes are financial benefits made by the government or publicbodies that provide a private or sector-specific benefit. (Aswathy N eal. 2012). However, the equitable share of most fisheries subsidies and schemes, in India and globally, is an active subject of debate,especially the share of harmful subsidies that are presently provided to commercial and ecologically destructive forms of fisheries. The equitable share of subsidies and schemes towards fish stocksustainability, protection of small scale fishworker rights, their socialand economic welfare, gender-workforce upliftments and restoration of crucial fishing beds and habitats have witnessed a back-end and low to negligible priority of central government schemes and subsidies since the last decade
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Source-NATIONAL FISHWORKERS FORUM(NFF) -2024