A comprehensive stock assessment of Japanese threadfin bream stock in Indian waters is lacking. Existing stock assessments in coastal states off Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Gujarat are patchy. Biomass estimates (or equivalent) are not publicly available or have not been estimated from stock assessments. Nevertheless, Threadfin breams (Nemipterus spp.) constitute one of the most important commercial demersal stocks targeted by trawlers in the Indian EEZ. They are abundant in 30-200 m depth range. Traditionally trawlers targeted this stock in the 50m depth range, but over the last two decades fishery has expanded and the stock has been exploited in deeper waters as deep as 150m along the west coast of India.