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Fuel use in small-scale fishing vessels along the southeast coast of India: a comparative study to ascertain possible reasons and potential recommendations for effective management

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Regulating the fuel consumption of small-scale fishing vessels could help to keep global warming well below 1.5 °C and lead to effective management in small-scale fisheries (SSF) of developing countries like India. In this regard, a bottom-up approach was carried out to collect the requisite data to explore the fuel consumption of small-scale fishing vessels along India’s southeast coast. Consequently, twenty-four fishing vessels (type A to type X) were grouped into seven categories based on fishing methods. The estimated numerical value of fuel use intensity (FUI) ranging from 0.08 to 0.80 was used to examine the fuel-efficient fishing vessel and engine type. In addition, the estimated revenue on fuel ranging from ₹5625.06/l to ₹218.07/l and annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using the Tier 1 method were used to understand the economic efficiency and GHG emission trend, respectively. The total annual GHG emissions from all the fishing vessels at the selected sites were about 1.25E + 08 t CO2-eq year−1. The result shows that longline-cum-gillnetters, seine-netters, longliners and drift-gillnetters largely contributed to 65% of the annual GHG emissions. By recognizing the factors influencing the fuel consumption of fishing vessels in SSF, this sector could be understood, effectively managed, and performed well. Therefore, the possible reasons were extensively discussed through a comparative approach, and potential recommendations for effective management were made.

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The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Notes

  1. According to the Government of Tamil Nadu (www.tn.gov.in), there are 14 coastal districts in Tamil Nadu after the year 2019.

  2. The net calorific value per liter of diesel, petrol, and kerosene was determined using the EIA energy calculator, which can be found at https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators/energy-conversion-calculators.php

  3. During the primary survey, it was observed that fishermen use their ingenuity to determine the number of sails for fishing based on the wind speed.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the fishermen who cooperated with the survey and provided information for this study. The first author expressed his gratitude to Dr Riji Jhon, former vice chancellor of Kerela University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi; and Dr Ravi Shankar, former director of ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Kochi, for their support during the study.

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  1. Department of Fishing Technology, Faculty of Fisheries Science, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Panangad, Cochin, 682506, India

    Kumarakannan Asokan, Manoj Kumar B, Amrutha R. Krishnan & Mathew Sebastian

  2. Fishing Technology Division, ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, CIFT Road Matsyapuri, Willingdon Island, Cochin, 682029, India

    Paras Nath Jha & Leela Edwin

  3. Faculty of Marine Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, 682016, India

    Paras Nath Jha

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Kumarakannan Asokan: conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, data curation, writing—original draft, visualization. Paras Nath Jha: conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, writing-original draft, project administration. Leela Edwin: conceptualization, validation, writing—review and editing, project administration, supervision. Manoj Kumar B: validation, writing—review and editing, project administration, supervision. Amrutha R Krishnan: validation, writing—review and editing. Mathew Sebastian: validation, writing—review and editing.

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Asokan, K., Jha, P.N., Edwin, L. et al. Fuel use in small-scale fishing vessels along the southeast coast of India: a comparative study to ascertain possible reasons and potential recommendations for effective management. Environ Monit Assess 195, 345 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-10962-y

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