Another eventful and successful year has passed in the history of CMFRI, which witnessed a series of technological developments in marine fisheries research. Starting with successful demonstration of open sea cage farming of lobsters and ornamental fishes at Kanyakumari and Mandapam, we followed our success at Karwar and Chennai. The technological breakthrough in induced breeding of Cobia at Mandapam is the pinnacle of our research achievements this year. We also established our credibility in product development from natural resources by developing Green Mussel Extract (GMe) and VARNA the marine ornamental fish feed.

We successfully completed the National Marine Fishery Census 2010. We feel proud to initiate the process of hosting the 9th Indian Fisheries Forum to be held at Chennai during December 19-23, 2011 by launching the logo and website. We have also reached a milestone in improving our visibility in the global marine fisheries research scenario by launching Eprints@CMFRI, which is the open access research outputs repository of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute. With 7,000 research publications uploaded on our website, we stand as the first ICAR Institute to reach this stage.

All these developments bear testimony to our concerted, committed and determined effort. During the ensuing year also, we shall continue, with the same enthusiasm, our march towards a sustainable marine fisheries regime. We shall look forward to a Happy, Prosperous and Productive New Year 2011.

Wishing You All Happy New Year 2011.

(G. Syda Rao)