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Synopsis Sustainable development of fisheries in India is a major concern for the public, the industry as well as the administration as it contributes significantly to the national economy: to food supply, employment, earnings, foreign exchange, public revenue, regional development, recreation, social welfare etc.  Nonetheless, the sustainability of Indian fisheries, like most other nations' fisheries, is threatened by a number of ecological, economic, social, cultural, institutional and technological constraints.  This book explores the sustainable development.  It, however, comes to the conclusion that such solutions are unlikely to bring about sustainability because of many interactions, interdependencies and externalities in the economy, all of which remind one about the working of the 'impossibility theorem' in poor countries.  This book has, in addition to this, and prior to this, given a comprehensive review of the global and national literature relating to sustainable development theory and sustainable development of fisheries. Its discussion of the sustainable development theory is exhaustive dealing with definition, development of the concept over time, spanning from classical to neo-classical, Marxian, modern and post-modern thinking, and with issues, criteria, and indicators of sustainability.  Notwithstanding all these, this book has also cast some doubt on the concept of sustainable development as a neo-liberal ploy to camouflage the ongoing process of global business expansion, thus exposing the political economy of unsustainable development.  This book, cast in eight chapters, is a rare critique of the general theory of sustainable development and the political economy of unsustainable development of fisheries in India.  It will be of great interest to academics, administrators and others concerned with the general theory of sustainable development and with sustainable development of fisheries in India in particular and the world in general.