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ICAR sponsored Winter School on Recent development in taxonomic techniques of marine fishes for conservation and sustainable fisheries management: Training Manual

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CMFRI Training Manual Series No: 26/2021
 
Title ICAR sponsored
Winter School
on Recent development in taxonomic techniques of marine
fishes for conservation and sustainable fisheries
management: Training Manual
 
Creator Nair, Rekha J
Mahesh, V
Ratheesh Kumar, R
Sangeetha, A T
Vishnupriya, K M
 
Subject Fish Taxonomy
Taxonomy
 
Description Ocean drives global systems that make the Earth habitable for humankind and hence is
one of the most important resources to be studied in the century. Marine biodiversity is critical
to the health of people and our planet. Marine protected areas need to be earmarked and
effectively managed, and regulations need to be put in place to reduce overfishing, With the
Covid-19 not dying down ocean conservation and action should not come to a halt while we
tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Fishing the world ocean will change the biological diversity
of its ecosystems substantially; studies to determine the effects of fishing on marine
biodiversity requires a variety of data, the most important among them being the correct
taxonomic identification of organisms. Since the information and identification of all
organisms in an ecosystem is physically impossible, target taxonomic groups are only studied
and this all the more increases the importance of the taxonomic study. Understanding of
evolutionary relationships will advance with the use of modern methods. This may require
training new experts in the systematics of the group in question, or enticing existing experts to
publish reviews of the group. Records of species occurrences from existing databases and
literature must be assessed carefully for reliability. If reliability of existing records cannot be
evaluated, then caution is advisable when ascribing importance to the records.
The ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) established by the
Government of India on February 3rd 1947 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers
Welfare, Government of India emerged as a leading tropical marine fisheries research institute
in the world. This year the Institute completes its glorious 75 years along with the country when
it celebrates Azadi ki Amrit Mahostav. During the first half of the seven decades of its
existence, the CMFRI devoted its research attention towards the estimation of marine fisheries
landings and effort, taxonomy of marine organisms and the bio-economic characteristics of the
exploited stocks of finfish and shellfish and developing and promoting mariculture systems for
sustainable growth of marine fish production in the Indian EEZ. With over 221 new species
are being described by the Scientists of Institute, it is only apt that a training of this capacity is
being organised by the Institute to commemorate its 75th year of research expertise in the area
of tropical marine fisheries.
The Course Manual released on this occasion covers important aspects of taxonomy,
marine fisheries, nomenclature rules, taxonomy of several fish groups including clupeids,
myctophids, balistids, eels, billfishes, besides deep sea crustaceans, cephalopods, mammals in
addition to analytical methods, trade rules prepared by experts in their respective fields. I
congratulate the Course Director, Dr. Rekha J Nair, Principal Scientist and her team Shri Dr.
Ratheesh Kumar R, Scientist, Dr. V. Mahesh, Scientist, Dr. Subal Kumar Roul, Scientist,
Course Co-Directors and Team Winter School for their efforts in bringing out the Manual on
time and to arrange the programme in a befitting manner
 
Publisher ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2022
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15672/1/Recent%20development%20in%20taxonomic%20techniques%20of%20marine%20fishes%20for%20conservation%20and%20sustainable%20fisheries%20management_2022_Winter%20school_DFD.pdf
Nair, Rekha J and Mahesh, V and Ratheesh Kumar, R and Sangeetha, A T and Vishnupriya, K M (2022) ICAR sponsored Winter School on Recent development in taxonomic techniques of marine fishes for conservation and sustainable fisheries management: Training Manual. Manual. ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi.