There were 156 marine fishing villages in Karnataka, 14 were in Dekshin Kannada, .59 in Udupi and the rest 83 in Uttar Kannada district.
The total numbers of fishing villages in Karnataka, 14 were in Dakshin Kannada, 34%in Udupi and 13%in Dakshin Kannada district.
Maine Fishermen population in Karnataka was 170,914.Adult males and females constituted 36% each and children 28%. Fishermen concentration was higher in Dakshin Kannada district followed by Udupi .Average population per village was 1.096.There were 968 females for 1000 males among them.
Average family size in fisher folk of the Karnataka state was 5.66.
In Karnataka 31% of the fishermen possessed primary level of education, 29% secondary level and 10% possessed above secondary level of education. About 30% of the fishermen population had no formal education followed by Dakshin Kannada (69%) and Uttar Kannada (62%).
Of the 30.176 fishermen families, 90% were Hindus, 95 Islam and the rest 1% were Christians. About 6.5%of the marine fisher folk families belonged to either scheduled caste or scheduled tribe.
Active fishermen constituted 22%of the marine fisher folk population, of which 86% were full time fishers, 11% were part time fishers and the remaining 3% were occasional.
Of the full time fishermen, 52%were from Uttar Kannada district, 39% from Udupi and the rest 9% from Dakshin Kannada district.
14%of the fishermen families were having membership in co-operative societies out of which 75%had membership were maximum in Udupi district.
Trawlers, gill netters and purse-shiners were the main craft of the mechanized sector and plank built boats and canoes were more in the artisan sector. There were 15.655 craft in the fishery employed in marine fishing of which 7.577 were traditional non –motorized,3,705 were motorized and 4.373 were mechanized craft of which 2,515 were trawlers and 1.254 were gill netters.
In Karnataka, marine fisher folk owned 10.622 fishing craft out of which 71% were traditional non motorized, 19% were mechanized and the rest motorized craft .Of the 2007 mechanized crafts owned by the fisher folk 1018 were trawlers, 633 were gill-netters and 253 were purseseiners. The number of families having shares in fishing craft was maximum in Udupi district.
Important gears of Karnataka were hooks and lines, drift nets, trawl nets, fixed bag nets long lines and scoop net. Sharing pattern was more visible in trawl nets and seine nets.
Nearly 43% of the fisher folk families involved in fishing possessed neither craft nor gear.
Only 4% of the fisher folk families were found to own some electronic gadgets /life saving equipment.
In Karnataka, nearly 85% of the housed where marine fisher folk families live were found to be pucca and in Udupi district 99%of the fisher folk houses were pucca.
There were about 1.091 educational institutions in the marine fishing villages of which 74% were primary schools, 19%were secondary.
All the marine fishing villages were electrified and 98%were connected by road.
There were 152 ice factories located in the marine fishing villages of which 73 were in Udupi, 45 in Dakshin Kannada and Uttar Kannada districts.
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