Activities and Timeline
| Timeline | Activity |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Official announcement and approval during World Fisheries Day celebrations |
| Nov 2024 – April 2025 | Preparatory work: schedule finalization, development of VyAS-NAV application and preliminary groundwork |
| April 1, 2025 onwards | Start of pre-census activities on the field |
| April 2025 – Nov 2025 | Pre-census marine fishing village list validation, enumerator identification, staff recruitment, training of supervisors/enumerators, App development and testing, craft & gear census (across harbours and landing centres) |
| Nov – Dec 2025 | 45-day full-scale Marine Fisheries Census field exercise – Enumerators will visit each marine fisher household in the identified marine fishing villages under supervision at district, state, regional, and national levels |
| Jan- Mar 2026 | Summarization and mining of data collected and publication of reports |
