Greetings to all..

The activities of ICAR-CMFRI focus on several activities to promote sustainable marine fisheries and mariculture. During the last quarter of the year 2024, the release of innovative feeds using alternate, sustainable feed ingredients such as insect-protein to substitute fish meal and adoption of advanced technologies to produce millions of hatchery seeds of important shellfish species to facilitate open sea farming as well as restore challenged natural stocks, has been noteworthy. Awareness workshops to enable adoption of transformative technologies such as drones in the fisheries sector were also conducted. Marine Fisheries Census 2025 scheduled to cover more than a million fishermen households across the country will be conducted by ICAR-CMFRI with the support of the Department of Fisheries, Govt. of India. It is a major recognition as well as responsibility for the institute which has to complete the MFC 2025 in the coming days in a time-bound manner. 

With best wishes.

Dr. Grinson George

Director
Email: director.cmfri@icar.org.in