• There are 263 Marine fishing villages in Gujarat. Junagadh district has the maximum number of marine fishing villages (72) and Anand district has the minimum (1).
• There were 59,889 marine fisher folk families in the state with maximum number of families located in Junagadh district (34%). The other major districts were Valsad (14%), Porbandar (11%) and Jamnagar (11%).
• Marine fishermen population in Gujarat was 323215 of which adult male constituted 30%, adult female (11%) and children (41%).
• Average population per village was 1229 and the average family size was 5.4.
• Fishermen concentration was higher in Junagadh district (37%) followed by Valsad (14%). Female to male ratio was 938 for 1000 males.
• In Gujarat 22% of the fishermen possessed primary level of education 16% secondary level and 3% possessed above secondary level of education. About 59% of the fishermen population has no formal education.
• Active fishermen constituted 26% of the marine fisher folk population out of which 83% were involved in full time fishing, 12% were part time fishers and the remaining 5% were occasionals.
• Trawlers, gill netters and dot netters were the main craft of the mechanized sector and plank built boats and canoes were more in the artisanal sector. There were 24152 craft in the fishery employed in marine fishing of which 13047 were mechanized, 7376 were motorized and the rest non-motorised. Trawlers accounted for 61%, dolnetters (19%) and gillnetters (18%) of the mechanized craft. There were 8002 mechanised trawlers of which 4852 were in Junagadh district
• Gujarat marine fisher folk owned 14666 crafts out of which 52% were mechanized, 30% were motorized and the remaining were non-motorised craft. The number of families having shares in fishing craft was maximum in Junagadh followed by Valsad.
• Important gears of Gujarat were trawl nets, gill nets, fixed bag nets and shore seines. Sharing pattern was more visible in fixed bag nets and trawl nets.
• Nearly 44% of the fisher folk families involved in fishing possessed neither craft nor gear.
• Only 14% of the fisher folk families were found to own some electronic gadgets / life saving equipment.
• About 93% of the marine fishing villages were electrified and 92% were connected by road.

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