FISHERY INDUSTRY IN INDIA & IT’S PRESENT STATUS & FUTURE PERFORMANCE.

BY PINKEY GUPTA

CIMS B-SCHOOL

MISSION:- SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF INDIAN FISHERIES & AQUACULTURE BY INTERFACING RESEARCH, EDUCATION & EXTENSION RESULTING IN A PROPER FIT B/W THE HUMAN NEEDS & THE HABITAT, WITH AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN GLOBAL FISHERIES.

Computer based models for fishery management in open water.

Developing marine & estuarine biodiversity database, formulating conservation & management action plan on GIS platform.

Using remote sensing technology, mapping potential inland fishery resources in the country incorporating information on production, dominant catch trend, species compositions & ecological status.

Assessment & action plan for hill fishery resources management.

Pilot-scale testing of appropriate management models for improving fisheries in reservoirs, lakes & floodplain wetlands.

Computerized system. Using remote sensing technology.

Developing sustainable technologies for mari-culture,

open sea culture.

Diversification in aqua-culture by bringing more potential

fin/shellfish species & varied culture system in fresh &

brackish-water farming.

Breeding & culture of high value fin-fish & shell-fishes.

Organic aqua-farming.

Fish health management, immuno-prophylaxis &

therapeutic against common diseases.

Ornamental fish breeding & farming.

Up-scaling of per & cage culture technology in reservoir's

& wetlands.

Fish nutrition, feed development & technology for live

feed organisms.

Up-scaling of breeding & culture technologies for

potential cold-water fish species.

Technology development for aquaculture inland saline

water areas.

Water budgeting in inland aquaculture.

Development of water re-circulating units for different

aquaculture systems.

Genetic improvement in existing fin-fish & shell-fish

species for growth & diseases resistance.

Cataloging fish germ- plasm resources for developing

biodiversity respiository.

Developing technologies for post-mortem sperm

preservation & gasome conservations.

Exotics & quarantine, import risk analysis & diseases

diagnostics.

Genotyping of fish & shell-fishes & allied taxonomic

group across different ecosystems.

Genetic cataloguing of microbes.

Cytogenetic & genotoxicity studies in fishes & shell-fish.

Developing standards & certification norms for primary

fish produce & products.

Development of an board & on shore equipment

for fishing & fish processing.

Bio-informatics & IT based solutions to fisheries

harvest &post harvest issues.

Development of techniques to control seepage in

ponds for aquaculture.

Develop techniques for fish farm construction in

porous & loose soils.

Human resources development in emerging

areas of fishery aquaculture, harvest-post

harvest, processing, aqua culture engineering,

aquatic environment & agri-business

management.

Documenting entire information on fisheries &

aquaculture in the country for providing inputs to

policy & governance.

Low cost, zero water exchange technology for shrimp farming developed.

Successful trials of shrimp farming in land saline area with good production.

Development of open sea cage farming of sea-bass & lobsters along the west & east coast of India.

Award winning Juvenile & turtle excluder device in trawl net’s.

Development of big mesh size purse seine for deep sea pelagic fishing.

Production process of value added products from cuttlefish, squids, threadfin breams, tilapia & major carps standardized.

Developed packaging system for cooked fish products in retort-able flexible pouches to maintain & preserve quality of products for more then a year.

Standardized mitochondrial DNA sequence-based species

identification & PCR-based sex determination of marine.

M. Japonicus was successfully cultured registering a survival

of 83% & a production of 1018Kg/Ha/4 months.

Developed a database “fish chromosomes world” containing

Karyo- morphdogical information on 126 finfish species from

34 families & 9 orders.

High production from 100-200kg/ha/year to 1000kg/ha/year

attained in beels / wetlands through pen-culture technology.

Development of 250 kg hybrid solar fish dryer with LPG/

biogas hitting system(CIFT-CRYER-SOL 250) for drying fish

under control conditions to ensure superior quality products

with attractive colour.

Technology were popularized & implemented

through regular interaction with user agencies, by

imparting training, short term courses,

consultancies & frontline demonstration.

Technology impact on fresh-

water fish production with national average in

pond production of 3 Tons/ha/year with total fish

production of 3.5 million tons from freshwater

aquaculture & annual fish seed production of

24000 million fry.

Feed for different life stages of

carp’s, shrimp & sea-bass has been developed,

transferred to private entrepreneurs of

commercial production.

Development of design of new generation, fuel efficient, multi-purpose fishing vessels.

Development of innovative gears like mesh size purse scène to exploit deeper water fishes.

Monitoring of health of inland & coastal aquatic ecosystem.

Development of technology for bio-remediation process of degraded aquatic resources.

Water budgeting in inland aquaculture.

Seed production, growth out technology for ornamental fishes.

Species diversification in inland & brackish-water aquaculture.

Open sea Mari-culture for fish & shell-fish.

Low cost-low input shrimp farming technology based on

organic farming principles.

Modified zero water exchange technology for fish &

shrimp farming.

Affordable ready to eat fish products.

Improved processing technologies for fishery products &

by-products of international standards.

Development of bioactive & pharmaceutically important

products from aquatic resources.

Reduction in loss of fish during harvest & post-harvest

period.

Fishery waste utilization.

Evolving techniques to ensure sea food safety.

Development of designs of new-generation, fuel efficient,

multi-purpose fishing vessels.