he following communication contains information on programmes granted or maintained in respect of fisheries sector by the Central Government as well as various State Governments and the Union Territories for the Financial Year 2018-19. India had already notified its fisheries subsidies for the financial year 2017-18. The present communication also includes information on fisheries subsidies schemes for the financial years 2015-16 to 2017-18 for the State of West Bengal, supplementing India’s earlier notification. The information provided in this notification is for transparency purposes in order to clarify the operations of programmes or measures. In accordance with Article 25.7 of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM), this notification does not in any way prejudice the legal status, nature or effects of government assistance programmes under the ASCM and GATT 1994, including as to whether or not the programmes notified are specific within the meaning of the ASCM.