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The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlines that the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) will research early cell line development

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute of India has joined forces with Neat Meatt Biotech to create high-value marine fish in bioreactors. The institute is taking on the challenge of lab-grown fish for the first time in India to tackle the increasing demand for seafood and ease the strain on wild fish stocks. To create cultivated or lab-grown fish, scientists isolate specific cells from the fish and grow them in a laboratory setting using animal component-free media.

The final goal is to have a product that mimics the flavour, texture, and nutritional benefits of traditionally raised fish. Initially, the focus will be on developing cell-based high-value marine fish species, such as kingfish, pomfret, and seer. To launch this initiative in a public-private partnership mode, CMFRI has partnered with Neat Meatt Biotech, a start-up dedicated to developing cultivated meat. Dr A Gopalakrishnan, CMFRI director, and Dr Sandeep Sharma, co-founder, and CEO of Neat Meatt Biotech, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding the newly formed partnership.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlines that the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) will research early cell line development. This process involves isolating and cultivating fish cells for further study and analysis. In addition, the CMFRI will be responsible for carrying out genetic, biochemical, and analytical work associated with the project. The institute is equipped with a cell culture laboratory that provides essential facilities for research in cellular biology.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlines that

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The total export of fish and related products is Rs 63,969.14 crores in the year 2022-23

The inland fish production has shown rapid growth from 2014-15 to 2022-23. Inland fish production increased from 66.87 lakh tonnes in 2014-15 to 131.13 lakh tonnes in 2022-2023. This information was given by Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, and Animal Husbandry & Dairying in a written reply to Lok Sabha.

The total export of fish and related products is Rs 63,969.14 crores in 2022-23 against Rs 46,662.85 crores in 2019-20. 

During the last three financial years (FY 2020-21 to FY 2022-23) and the current financial year (2023-24), a central budget of Rs 4810 crore has been allocated for the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) and out of this budgetary allocation, a sum of Rs 3345.28 crore has been released to various State Governments/Union Territories and other implementing agencies for development of fisheries and aquaculture sector.

The share of the Fisheries sector in the total Gross Value Added (GVA), at constant prices, in 2021-2022 is Rs 1,47,519 crores constituting about 1.07 per cent of the total national GVA and 6.86 per cent of Agricultural GVA.

As reported by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, the total import of fish and related products is Rs 1,949.51 crores in 2022-23, against the import of Rs 1,271.11 crores in 2019-20.

The total export of fish and related

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This accounts for 8 per cent of global production, contributing about 1.09 per cent to the country’s Gross Value Added (GVA) and over 6.724 per cent to the agricultural GVA

India has achieved a record fish production of 175.45 lakh tonnes in FY 2022-23, making it the third-largest fish-producing country in the world. This accounts for 8 per cent of global production, contributing about 1.09 per cent to the country’s Gross Value Added (GVA) and over 6.724 per cent to the agricultural GVA. The sector has immense growth potential and requires focused attention through policy and financial support to ensure sustainable, responsible, inclusive and equitable development.

The government has announced a new sub-scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah-Yojana (PM-MKSSY, 2023-24). This is a central sector sub-scheme under PMMSY with a targeted investment of INR 6,000 crore. The scheme has been introduced to enable activities for fishermen, fish vendors and micro & small enterprises. PM-MKSSY aims to focus on the gradual formalization of the unorganized fisheries sector, including digital inclusion, and facilitating access to institutional financing, especially working capital. It also aims to provide one-time incentives to beneficiaries for opting for aquaculture insurance, incentivizing fisheries and aquaculture microenterprises for fisheries sector value-chain efficiencies, incentivizing micro and small enterprises for the establishment of supply chains of safe fish products to consumers, and providing additional incentives to the applicants for creating and maintaining jobs for women in the fisheries sector.

The fisheries sector plays an important role in the Indian economy. It contributes to the national income, exports, food and nutritional security as well as employment generation. The fisheries sector is recognised as the ‘Sunrise Sector’ and is instrumental in sustaining the livelihoods of around 30 million people in India, particularly that of the marginalised and vulnerable communities.

This accounts for 8 per cent of

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FlowFeeder is gentler on pellets than air-blown systems and enhances feeding regimens by minimising lost feed days

Innovasea, a global leader in technologically advanced aquatic solutions for aquaculture and fish tracking, today introduced FlowFeeder, a waterborne feeding solution that gently delivers feed to fish below the surface, minimising pellet damage and loss that’s common with air-blown feeding systems.

“FlowFeeder provides a better way to feed fish because it gets more pellets directly into the pen underwater,” said Langley Gace, senior vice president of Innovasea. “Rather than blowing feed pellets onto the surface above the fish pen where they can drift away, FlowFeeder delivers the feed at the depths where fish prefer to congregate. That means less waste and better feed conversion ratios – one of the keys to profitability at any fish farm.”

FlowFeeder is an end-to-end feeding solution that can deliver feed to multiple pens from a single, centralised point. It mixes feed pellets with water on the feed vessel and then gently carries the mixture into the pens.

The waterborne delivery system requires less power than air-blown systems and can reduce energy costs by up to 50 per cent – with farms that use diesel generators to power their feeding operations shrinking their carbon footprint as a result. Waterborne delivery also reduces damage to feed pellets, which are often fractured when blown through pipes by an air compressor.

FlowFeeder features a proprietary feed dispenser that can be placed at the ideal feeding depth for the species – and it does a better job distributing the pellets throughout the pen for all fish.

Because the feed pellets are delivered at depth, FlowFeeder enables farm operators to feed even when there are heavy waves, strong currents or surface threats such as harmful algal blooms or sea lice. That keeps fish stocks safe and significantly reduces the number of lost feed days to help keep growth targets on track.

FlowFeeder is gentler on pellets than air-blown

Acquaculture, Agro Universities, Animal Health

The products were produced and marketed by Alpha Biologicals, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

The ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai has launched its technology products for “Mitigation of Nitrite Metabolite in Shrimp Ponds and Control of External Parasite in Fish. The products were produced and marketed by Alpha Biologicals, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.

Dr KP Jithendran, Director, ICAR-CIBA, Chennai stressed developing efficient products that are safe for the environment. Dr Amaraneni Ravi Kumar, Managing Partner, Alpha Biologicals emphasised the need for quality products to support aquaculture. He also underlined the field trials conducted across the country.

The NOVACIDE-ALF is an efficient oral preparation for controlling the crustacean parasites like Argulus spp., Caligus spp., Lernanthropsis spp. and Lernaea spp. in the different fish species in vivid culture systems, such as aquariums, ponds, cages, concrete tanks, FRP tanks and lakes with a wide range of salinities 0 to 30 ppt. The NOVATAN-AMS uses the formulation containing the enrichments of nitrite oxidising bacteria that are efficient in oxidising the toxic metabolite nitrite to non-toxic nitrate.

The company has started the commercial production of the products and is planning to market them in the major aquaculture states of the country.

The products were produced and marketed by

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Experts discuss ways to increase the income of fish farmers

On the third day of 12th Agrovision Summit, a conference was held on the scope of inland fisheries in the Vidarbha region. The event started with the lamp lighting ceremony by Dr Suvarna Chandrappagari, Chief Executive, National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), Tage Taki, Minister of Agriculture, Horticulture, Dairy Development, Fisheries, Arunachal Pradesh; Lalchand Kataria, Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Dr CD Mayee, Chairman – Advisory Council Agrovision, Ex-Chairman – ASRB (ICAR), Dr Ashish Paturkar, Vice-Chancellor, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University (MAFSU), Nagpur and Ravi Boratkar, MD, MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications, Publisher, MMA publications and Chairperson, Agrovision Foundation among other dignitaries.

Mayee started the conference by mentioning the scope of inland fisheries in the Vidarbha region as there are lot of water holds in the region. He stated that the conference will help farmers in the region to focus on new techniques and come with innovation in aquaculture.

Paturkar in his speech gave an idea about fishery potential in Bhandara, Gondia and Gadchiroli among other regions, which has big ponds. He also mentioned Google mapping and how it has helped to map the entire Vidarbha region for fish cultivation. Talking about the challenges, he said that many regions lack proper fishing techniques and urged stakeholders, ministry and farmers to work in an organised way for the upliftment of the sector. He emphasised maximum utilisation of water bodies, seed production in sufficient quantities, better logistic facilities, procuring good sources and cheaper fish feed, fish production and processing.

Exports of processed fish products is what Paturkar mentioned during the conference. Lastly, he talked about how value addition and collaboration with private players will help fish farmers for a better future.

Dr Chandrappagari in her speech gave an overview of how despite being a drought-prone region things can turn for better by adopting sustainable measures. Mentioning that Vidarbha has a huge potential in the fisheries sector, she urged farmers and stakeholders to adopt certain measures like increasing productivity, procuring quality seeds, following good management practices and upgrading marketing infrastructure. Focus on river ranching, storage facilities, transportation and logistics and adoption of schemes in the Vidarbha region are some of the measures mentioned by Dr Chandrappagari.

Kataria talked about prawn cultivation in Churu district and how the Government of Rajasthan are taking various initiatives to encourage farmers in fish farming and adopt various sustainable measures viz rainwater harvesting, drip irrigation etc.

Taki in his speech thanked the Agrovision team for inviting him where his state will be hugely benefitted from the technologies being showcased at the event. He said, “Arunachal being a hilly terrain, there are a lot of challenges in the region.” He particularly mentioned the right way to implement techniques for sustainable fish farming, balanced use of water bodies and urged the stakeholders for easy earning methods for farmers. Besides, he talked about better logistic facilities and technologies to enhance fish feed. He particularly mentioned certain fish species on the verge of extinction despite less pollution in the state.

Lastly, he urged farmers to take up responsibilities and form self-help groups to sustain themselves in the long run.

Experts discuss ways to increase the income