date:May 30, 2012
about 55 to a dollar up from 45 to a dollar before 2011.
Not surprisingly, in the April-December period of the last financial year - when the rupee fell the most - India's marine food exports rose by almost 19% to US$2.62bn from US$2.21bn in the same period of the 2010-11 fiscal.
According to the DADF, India's marine exports include black tiger shrimp, fresh water prawn shrimp, frozen versatile fish, frozen skip jack and frozen squid mostly from Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.