Marine Coastal ecosystems and coastal communities are poorly repeated in the public debates on India's social and environmental problems Coastal and marine ecosystems are the backbone of a fisheries economy that supports livelihoods of million directly and several more indirectly According to the Marine Fisheries Census 2005, commissioned by the Department of Animal Husbandry Dairying and Fishers, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India and conducted by the Central Marine Fisheries Research institute(CMERI, India's shores are home to 3202 marine fishing villages, 1332 landing centres and 7.36212 households This amounts to total of 3.52 million marine fisher folk in all maritime states and union territories of India, excluding the union territories of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Lakshadweep Islands Despite 68 years of Independence, individual or community rights of fishing communities over coastal lands still do not exist In most cases, communities do not even have titles and deed for their houses and settlements. This poses a real and present danger to the very existence of fishing communities fighting with non-coastal commercial interests on their home land. With a aim of promoting and supporting sustainable livelihoods, social development of the fishing communities and to promote ecologically conservation and management in coastal and marine in India non-governmental worked on it.