The potential of marine fishery resources available in Indias jurisdictional waters is estimated at 5.31 million metric tonnes. Against this potential, the production from marine fisheries in 2018-19 has been estimated as 3.714 million metric tonnes (provisional), according to a latest update from the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying. This indicates that marine fisheries resources are not overexploited and there is a marginal scope for tapping of more resources from the sea in a sustainable manner. The Department of Fisheries, Government of India is implementing a component namely, Development of Marine Fisheries, Infrastructure and Post-Harvest Operations under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries, under which central financial assistance is provided to the States/Union Territories for growth and development of fisheries sector in the country for sub-components like motorizations of traditional crafts, procurement of Fiber-glass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) boats, construction of resource specific fishing vessels, mariculture activities, creating of shore based infrastructure facilities like fish landing centres, ice plants, cold storages, fish markets etc.