An overview on the relevancy between proximate protein content of few fishes with their market price value

By : Tapas Ghosh

Page No: 385-395

Abstract
Proteins from the animal sources are known to be ‘superior protein’. In India, where poverty and malnutrition remains a significant development challenge, fish can become a good food supplement as a source of protein (The World Bank, 2009; Alam, 2014). But, FAO (2015) reported that, India’s national average consumption of fish and fish products was 2.85 Kg./Capita/Year. This motivated me to investigate the relevancy of the price value and protein content of fishes. Objective was to investigate - ‘Is price value of fish depends on its protein content or not?’ Finally, conclusion was that price value of fish doesn’t depend on its protein content as higher rate of fish doesn’t signify that fish has rich protein and vice versa. If we can increase the rate of production or process the flesh of the fishes, having lower price value then it will surely help millions of people.

Author :
Tapas Ghosh
Research Scholar, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia-741235, W.B., India.