Though formally introduced by the government in the seventh five-year plan (1985-1990), the Blue Revolution is rooted in the 1960s, as an extension of the Green Revolution. And like its greener counterpart (which is synonymous with agriculture), the Blue Revolution is a term denoted to the expeditious increase in the production of fish and other marine products.

Tenuous as the relation may seem on the surface, such a thing is bound to impact the restaurant industry, which in effect, is only a spoke in the wheel that churns the much larger food sector. So, it isn't vague to say that everything is related, and that if the government — as reports suggest — is working towards increasing the production of tilapia, then chefs are likely to be looking at the freshwater cichlid species, too. This is in tandem with the incumbent government's policies, which seek to support aquaculture by investing in the rearing industry, as well as with the fact that India is currently one of the leading exporters of the fish across the globe.