Seminar on potential marine fishery resources, April 23, 1986

Abstract

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Cochin, is the premier organisation in the country conducting research in marine fisheries leading to rational exploitation, management, development and conservation of living marine resources. The Institute, ever since its early days of inception, hes been collecting data on the catch and effort along with the biological information on the exploited marine fisheries resources of the country, through a standardised, stratified, multistage random-sampling method. In addition to making use for biological studies, including assessment of stocks, conducted by the InstitUte these data have been processed and utilised to furnish estimates of annual marine fish production in different States over the past 38 years.