Abstract            Volume:4  Issue-3  Year-2016         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

To portray the present status of dry fish industry, a study was conducted in 7 different coastal fish landing centres as well as dry fish processing centres of two coastal districts of West Bengal namely South 24-parganas & Purba Medinipore. A total of 336 fish curers of 7 sample sites viz. Patharpratima Khuti, Baliara Khuti, Namkhana Khuti & Kakdwip Khuti under the district South 24-parganas and Junput Khuti, Haripur Khuti, Jaldha Khuti under the district Purba Medinipore, selected at random were personally interviewed through a structured schedule. All the 336 respondents of the 7 sample sites have been practicing the sun-drying of fishes in traditional manner exclusively. The peak season for fish drying was reported during November to March in the entire 7 sample sites. As many as 28% of the fish curers undertook fish drying activity procuring raw materials to the tune of 30,000kg/yr. The end product received after drying from these raw materials was estimated at 8000kg/yr. The traditional method of fish drying needs to be modernized for better return since it has promising export market.

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