Marine Fish Resources in India: Experimental Monetary Asset Accounts, Natural Capital and the Blue Economy Category GS Date Data rule Economy, Environment and Blue Economy GS Paper III 4 September 2026 30+ numerical facts
WHY IN NEWS
- MoSPI launched an experiment to assign monetary asset values to India's marine fish stocks through a concept paper on experimental monetary asset accounts.
- For UPSC, connect the current trigger with its static syllabus base, institutional mechanism, numerical anchors and implementation risks.
- The analytical test is to separate announcement or discovery from input, process, output and final outcome.
TOP DATA & FACTS FOR UPSC
- Concept paper: Methodological Approach for Compilation of Experimental Monetary Asset Accounts of Marine Fish Resources.
- More than 350 varieties of marine products reach export markets.
- Indian marine products reach about 130 countries.
- FY2024-25 marine exports: about 1.7 MMT.
- FY2024-25 export value: n 62,408.45 crore.
- Annual export-volume growth cited: 3.11%.
- India has been developing environmental accounts through EnviStats India since 2018.
- Comparable accounting attempts have been made by a small group including Australia, Netherlands, Norway, Canada, UK, France, US and New Zealand.
- SEEA provides an international framework for environmental-economic accounting.
- A fish-stock asset account should distinguish harvest flow from the underlying renewable stock.
- Overfishing can temporarily raise output while reducing future asset value.
- Climate change can alter species distribution and stock productivity.
- Current-affairs date: 4 September 2026.
- Use at least 3 analytical scales: local or sectoral, national and comparative or global.
- Distinguish 4 policy stages: input, process, output and outcome.