Kerala governor P Sathasivam to open marine institute @70 fete
A number of 154 scientists and over 600 other staff are working at the CMFRI in as many as 10 research Divisions.
Kochi: The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), one of the major fisheries research organisations in the world, is all set to celebrate its 70th year in research activities. Governor Justice P. Sathasivam will kick off the year-long celebrations at 2.30 pm on February 18 at its headquarters in Kochi. Dr. J. K. Jena, Deputy Director General (Fisheries) of ICAR, New Delhi, will preside over the function.
Established as a marine fisheries research station on February 3 in 1947 in Madras, the institute joined Indian Council Agricultural Research, (ICAR) family in 1967 and started functioning as a premier research establishment to undertake marine fisheries research in the country. Apart from estimation of marine fish landings, its valuation and taxonomic studies, the research activities of CMFRI are diversified to a variety of niche areas such as sea farming and coastal mariculture, development of hatchery technologies for commercially viable marine fish species, cage farming, biotechnological applications of marine resources, biodiversity studies, development of sustainable ecosystem management interventions, policy studies and so on.
Apart from its headquarters, the ICAR-CMFRI, country’s national R&D body in marine fisheries, has 11 regional research centres located respectively at Mandapam Camp, Visakhapatnam, Veraval, Mumbai, Chennai, Calicut, Karwar, Tuticorin, Vizhinjam, Mangalore and Digha, in addition to fifteen field centres throughout the coastal belts of the country and 1 KVK at Njarakkal, Ernakulum.