Indian Council of Agricultural Research
CENTRAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
CENTRAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Home Karwar Regional Station
Thrust Areas of Research:
Development of sustainable technologies for cage culture of high value food fishes.
Brood stock development, breeding and nursery rearing of high value food fishes.
Providing consultancy services to the state of Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka for undertaking open sea cage farming with the involvement of local fishermen
Development and standardization of health and environmental protocols to support open sea cage farming
Monitoring the resource characteristics of exploited finfish and shellfish along the north Karnataka and Goa coast
Ongoing Reserch Projects:
a. In-house projects :
| GIS based resource mapping of distribution and abundance of finfishes and shellfishes off Indian coast for suggesting operational based strategies for fisheries management |
| Development and standardization of seed production technologies of selected high value finfishes and shellfishes |
| Innovations in sea cage farming and coastal mariculture |
| Health Management in selected finfish and shellfish for mariculture and Aquariculture & bio prospecting from marine resources |
| Aquatic feed biotechnology for mariculture and aquaculture |
| Development of fishery management plans for sustaining marine fisheries of Karnataka and Goa |
| Development of fishery management plans (FMPs) for the bivalve fisheries of India |
b. Sponsered Projects :
| Flow of matter through trophic levels and biogeochemical cycle in marine and estuarine eco systems |
| National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture |
c. Consultancy Projects :
| Development of fresh water, brackish water and marine aquarium at Surat (Funded by Surat Muncipal Corporation) |
Completed Research Projects:
a. In-house projects :
| Management Advisories for sustaining marine fisheries of Karnataka and Goa |
| Assessment of biodiversity and ecological changes in open sea cage farming |
| Pathogen profiling, diagnostics and health management in maricultured finfish and shell fish |
| Resource damage assessment in marine fisheries: impact of selective fishing of juvenile sand bycatch and discards in trawl fisheries |
| Development of brood stock, captive breeding and seed production techniques for selected marine food fishes and ornamental fishes |
| Innovations in sea cage farming and development of sustainable Capture Based Aquaculture systems |
| Development of knowledge based information system for marine fisheries sustainability |
| Understanding the threatened coral reef ecosystems of southern India and designing interventions aimed at their restoration. |
b. Sponsered projects:
| Flow of matter through trophic levels and biogeochemical cycle in marine and estuarine eco systems (MoES) |
| National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (ICAR) |
| Open sea floating cage farm for R & D in marine finfish and shellfish production (MoA) |
c. Consultancy :
| Rapid impact assessment of Karwar waters for identifying Cage culture sites (Funded by Marine Products Export Development Authority, Kochi). |
Significant Achievements in the last 5 years
Technologies/Concepts/Findings
- Developed low cost steel cages of various sizes for open sea culture of finfish
- State of the art nursery rearing technology for Asian seabass and cobia
- Technology for culture of cobia and Asian seabass in open sea cages
- State of the art ‘all weather mooring system’ for open sea cage culture of finfish
- Transportation of fish seeds/ juveniles for long distances
- Infection of cobia with Photobactirium damselae subsp damselae, Asian sea bass with Vibrio alginolyticus and red snappers with Vibrio harveyi was reported for the first time by systematic molecular, biochemical and histopathological characterization
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