Central Government Departments

 

Fisheries of Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Set up

Deputy Director-General (Fisheries),the Head of the Division, is assisted by two Assistant Directors General (ADGs) - ADG (Marine Fisheries), ADG (Inland Fisheries), two Principal Scientists and one Under-Secretary. Division has five research institutes, one bureau, one national research centre and one deemd university, in addition a good number of ad-hoc research projects and revolving fund schemes are also in operation.

Thrust Areas

Stock assessment and monitoring of commercially important marine fishery resources

Development of fuel efficient fishing crafts and gears for deep sea fishing

Prevention of post harvest losses

Development of value-added fishery products for domestic and export markets

Extraction, production and evaluation of biomolecules from marine organisms and plants for industrial and pharmaceutical applications

Upgradation of fish processing technologies

Mariculture of fish and shellfish

Introduction of HACCP in seafood processing

Fishery resource inventory of inland waters on GIS format

Estimates of environmental flows in river systems

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) of open waters with regard to different developmental protocols

Utilization of inland saline water for aquaculture

Enhancement of fish productivity from reservoirs

Rural aquaculture and integrated fish farming

Development of vaccines for fish diseases

Brackishwater aquaculture

Aquatic Biodiversity and conservation of endangered fish species

Development of Coldwater fisheries

Organic fish farming

Genetic characterization of aquatic animals of commercial importance

Achievements

Increase in total fish production from 0.75 million mt. in 1951 to 6.4 million mt. in 2004.

Cataloguing of fish genetic resources of India

Database on marine fisheries resources of India

Assessment of mangrove diversity in Sundarbans

Development of seed production technology for catfishes, freshwater prawns and ornamental fishes.

Pen culture technology for flood plain lakes

Genetically improved Jayanti rohu (CIFA IR-1) with enhanced growth

Development of milt cryopreservation technique for carps

FRP portable hatchery for carp seed.

Nested PCR kit for the rapid detection of White Spot Syndrome Viruses (WSSV)

Indigenous design of fishing crafts and gears for marine and inland waters.

Development of value added fishery products for domestic and export markets.

Culture of freshwater and marine ornamental fish

Design and fabrication of Turtle Excluder Device (TED) and Bye catch Reduction Device (BRD)

In-vitro marine pearl production through tissue culture techique in the Indian pearl oyster Pinctada fucata and abalone Haliotis varia

Breeding of sand lobster Thenus orientalis in captive condition

Breeding of yellow catfish Horabagrus brachysoma and freshwater eel Mastecembalus armatus in captive conditions

A freshwater boat of 5.22 m OAL made of alluminium alloy was designed, fabricated and launched mainly for fishing in island and reservoirs

A massive exercise of National Marine Fisheries Census - 2005 was completed

Retortable pouched products popularized as an alternative to canned fish

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