At present Orissa is having 23 exporters who are processing in 19 nos. of modern processing plants spreading throughout the coastal districts of Orissa. Out of 19 processing plants, 5 are European approved standard and few of them are highly International standard to meet the requirement of the International market. The total capacity of production of the plants are 342 MT per day. However the average utilisation capacity of the plants are only 11%. The total contribution of sea food production of Orissa in the basket of India sea food export is 8% in terms of quantity and 5% in terms of value. In 2002-03 which has been reduced to 4% in terms of value and 3% in terms of quantity. In the year 2004-05, 11% utilisation capacity of our processing factories is mainly due to decline of oceanic catch un-utilisation of vast coastal land for aquaculture and inadequate infrastructure. However, to increase the potentialities of exports, tremendous opportunities are available.

Orissa during 2004-05 produced 121.93 thousand tones of marine fishes from all the landing centres. Out of which only 65.24 thousand tonnes are sold to other states and other countries . A sizeable quantity of marine dry fishes are exported to Calcutta. Marine products landed in coastal districts of Orissa are exported to Japan, U.K., U.S.A., Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Spain.