CMFRI signed MoU for research collaboration

CMFRI signed MoU for research collaboration

New Delhi: Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute signed an MoU with the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology for research collaboration in the exploration and assessment of deep-sea fauna in Indian EEZ. 

The government of India established the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute on February 3rd, 1947 under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and later it joined the ICAR family in 1967. Over 65 years the Institute has emerged as a leading tropical marine fisheries research institute in the world.

CMFRI achievement is the development and refinement of a unique method for estimation of fishery catch and effort from the over 8000 km coastline called the "Stratified Multistage Random Sampling Method”. 

The Institute is maintaining the National Marine Fisheries Data Centre (NMFDC) with over 9 million catch and effort data records from all maritime states of India of more than 1000 fished species.

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