Pelagic Fisheries

Activities

• Assessment of fisheries (gear-wise catch-effort, species composition) of pelagic resources from various fishery centres along the Indian coast.
• Conduct studies on the biology of major commercial pelagic finfish resources (oil sardine, mackerel , anchovies, Bombay duck, carangids, ribbonfishes, seerfishes, tunas and cobia)
• Stock assessment of pelagic fishery resources
• Participation in exploratory surveys and collection of vessel based sea truth  data
•  Faculty for training programs in finfish taxonomy and fish stock assessment

Research projects (on-going)

In-House:

       1.  Management advisories for sustaining marine fisheries of Kerala and Lakshadweep

       2.  Management advisories for sustaining marine fisheries of Karnataka and Goa

       3.  Strategies for sustaining tuna fisheries along the coast of India

Sponsored Projects

       1. Assessment of fishery resources of the continental slope of the Indian EEZ and Central Indian 

          Ocean (Funded by CMLRE,  Ministry of Earth Sciences)

       2. Assessment of Myctophid resources in the Arabian sea and development of harvest and post-harvest

           technology (Funded by CMLRE,  Ministry of Earth Sciences)

       3. Tuna Fishery Forecasting System (Funded by INCOIS,  Ministry of Earth Sciences)

Inter-institutional /Inter-divisional projects

       1. Oceanic tuna fisheries of Lakshadweep – a value chain approach – NAIP project

       2. National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA)- Marine Capture Fisheries Component.

Downloads

1.       Poster of Deep sea fishes