Table 2.

Fish markets in the Chennai Metropolitan Area (2018)

Type of market	North	Central	South	Total
Wholesale markets	2	3	1	6
Retail markets (formal)	16	9	36	61
Street market (informal)a	100	120	180	400
Total	118	132	192	467

^aThe figures on the number of informal street markets are estimates, based on the conservative assumption that each of the 200 municipal wards in Chennai contains at least two informal street markets

Source authors’ fieldwork