Pelagic Fisheries

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  • • Appraisal of marine fisheries of various maritime states
    • Evaluation of the fishery and resource characteristics of oil sardine, anchovies, mackerel, coastal and oceanic tunas, tuna live baits, billfishes, seerfishes, carangids, ribbonfishes and Bombayduck
    • Stock assessment and management advice to concerned for judicious and sustainable exploitation of the pelagic resources
    • Manages the database on the exploited marine living resources
    • Multispecies analysis for ecosystem based fisheries management
    • Tagging and recovery studies on tunas
    • Studies on effect of climate change on fisheries
    • Consultancy services
    • Conduct of short term training courses
    • Faculty for Ph.D programmes in Mariculture and Fisheries Science
    • Participation in Community Fishery Development Programmes - augmentation of tuna production from Lakshadweep seas through installation of FADs and BFADs
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    Reserach Projects

    Xth Plan

    In-house Research Projects (Completed by June 2024)
    • PEL/CAP/1 Development of management strategies for sustainable fishery of sardines (Sardinella spp.)
    • PEL/CAP/2 Development of management strategies for judicious harvesting of anchovies
    • PEL/CAP/3 Development of management strategies for rational exploitation of seerfishes
    • PEL/CAP/4 Development of management strategies for sustainable exploitation of tuna and billfish resources of Indian EEZ
    • PEL/CAP/5 Development of management strategies and options for sustainable harvest of mackerels
    • PEL/CAP/6 Development of management strategies and options for sustainable fishery of Bombayduck
    • PEL/CAP/7 Monitoring of fishery and resource characteristics of exploited ribbonfish stocks and their management along the Indian coast
    • PEL/CAP/8 Management of carangid resources of Indian EEZ
    • PEL/BIOD/01 Taxonomy of marine pelagic finfishes

    In-house Research Projects (2005-07)

    • PEL/IDP/02 Appraisal of marine fisheries of Kerala
    • PEL/IDP/02 Appraisal of marine fisheries of Karnataka & Goa
    • PEL/IDP/02 Appraisal of marine fisheries of Lakshadweep

    Sponsored Research Projects

    • Integrated National Agricultural Resources Information System -NATP
    • Augmentation of marine fish production in Lakshadweep using FADs-NATP
    • Strategies and options for increasing and sustaining fisheries and aquaculture production to benefit poor household in Asia (ADB-RETA 5945) - WorldFish Center, Penang, Malaysia
    • Impact, adaptation and vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change – ICAR National Network Project
    • Tuna resources of the Indian EEZ – an assessment of growth and migratory patterns –DOD
    • Resource assessment and biology of deep sea fishes along the continental slopes of Indian EEZ - DOD

    Xl th Plan

    In-house Research Projects

    • Management advisories for sustaining marine fisheries of Kerala & Lakshadweep
    • Management advisories for sustaining marine fisheries of Karnataka & Goa

    Sponsored Research Projects

    MoES
    • Assessment of demersal fishery resources along continental slope
    • Survey and assessment of fish eggs and larvae in the Indian seas

    NAIP
    • Oceanic Tuna and Squid fisheries in the Andaman and Lakshadweep Seas: A Value Chain Approach

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    Salient achievements
    Distribution of major pelagic finfish resources in the EEZ of India
    Different types of craft
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