Eighty-one PMMSY projects, a seaweed cluster and two islands chosen as Climate Resilient Coastal Fishing Villages

Background

Lakshadweep's push for a ₹519 crore fisheries investment and a 50,000 tonne tuna target runs through the central schemes listed by its own Department of Fisheries.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana the department lists 81 projects, of which 24 are completed and 57 ongoing, with another 18 Fish Aggregating Devices planned.
Chetlat and Minicoy have been selected under the Climate Resilient Coastal Fishing Village Scheme.
A seaweed cluster project has in-principle approval for a hatchery and a seed bank, and 10 self-help groups across the nine inhabited islands are running demonstrations.
The Minicoy tuna canning factory has been outsourced to private entrepreneurs.
1,607 Kisan Credit Cards worth 16.5 crore have been issued to support micro-enterprises such as fish pickle and fish powder.
Seven new fisheries cooperatives were added to three existing ones, so every inhabited island now has a registered cooperative.