Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute All set for a blue revolution

Abstract

The Central Marine Fisheries Research lnstitute was established by Government of India on February 3,1947 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and later, in 1967, it joined the ICAR family and emerged as a leading tropical marine fisheries research institute in the world. Initially the institute's focus was on creating a strong database on marine fisheries sector by developing scientific methodologies for estimating the marine fish landings and effort inputs, taxonomy of marine organisms and the biological aspects of the exploited stocks of finfish and shellfish on which fisheries management were to be based. This focus contributed significantly to development of marine fisheries sector from a predominantly artisanal, sustenance fishery till the early sixties to that of a complex, multi-gear, multispecies fisheries.