| With a view to institutionalizing transfer of technologies, the institute has constituted a Consultancy Processing Cell (CPC) in 1997 for effectively serving the needs of our clients, through the short term and long term trainings, consultancies, contract services and contract research. |
| The technologies that have emerged from our laboratories are essentially in such critically and economically important areas as hatcheries (shrimps, crabs, lobsters, pearl oysters, mussels, edible oysters, clams, seacucumbers, squids, cuttlefish, mullets, groupers and clown fish), onshore and seafarms (shrimps, crabs, lobsters, pearls, edible bivalves, seaweeds, food and ornamental fishes), water quality management in farming, probiotics, artificial fish habitats, fisheries resources assessment, validation of potential fishing zones, sea ranching, integrated coastal zone management and preparation of fisheries exploration and farming project plans. |
| Some of our important clients are NEERI, BHEL, Cochin Port Trust, SPIC, MRPL, KIOCL, CARE INDIA, HARDY Exploration & Production India etc. |
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Marine Environment |
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Data generation and analyses and interpretation Primary and Secondary production |
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Physical, chemical data generation |
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Pollution monitoring |
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Preparation of baseline oceanographic data |
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EIA studies |
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Assessment of carrying capacity of environment |
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Biodiversity
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Bioprospecting
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Water and soil analyses |
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Live feed culture |
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Environment criteria for farm site selection |
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Fisheries |
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Planning and implementation of sample surveys |
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Coastal village/district-wise fisheries production data collection, collation and interpretation. |
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Craft/gear infrastructure data generation and analyses. |
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Species wise marine living resource production data
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Stock estimation and biological information for planning and management |
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Training on sampling methodology, fish stock assessment related computer software |
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Generation, analyses and interpretation of socio economic data on craft-gear combination and marketing
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Taxonomy of marine organisms with special reference to pharmacological importance, commercially important and ornamental fishes, corals, sponges, molluscs, echinoderms, shrimps and their distribution, abundance and exploitation. |
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Benthos, benthic biomass and ecology |
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Pelagic and demersal resources, spatial and seasonal production potential |
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Stock characteristics, conservation and management |
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Fishing gear impact assessment on the habitat |
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Exploited resources and their food web inter-relationship
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Fishery forecasting/remote sensing, modeling |
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Marine aquarium planning, construction and management
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Artificial reef-site selection, construction and management |
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Transmission and scanning electron microscopy |
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Coastal Aquaculture |
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Farm site selection; estimation and evaluation of carrying capacity of culture system/habitat |
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EIA of various aquaculture practices |
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Hatchery technology for prawns, crabs, edible oysters, mussels, clams, pearl oysters, sea cucumber and finfishes |
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Seed production and transport |
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Physiology, nutrition, pathology and genetics of cultivable organisms |
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Feed formulation |
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Sea ranching and stock enhancement |
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Technology packages |
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Penaeid prawn farming |
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Crabs/Lobster fattening and live transport |
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Edible oyster culture |
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Mussel culture |
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Clam culture/relaying |
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Pearl oyster farming and Pearl production |
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Finfish culture and live transport |
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Sea cucumber culture
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Seaweed culture
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Training |
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Fisheries resources, conservation and management
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Mariculture practices |
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Underwater diving |
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Sampling methodology, fish stock assessment related computer software |
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Crustacean Mariculture Technologies |
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Eighteen species of shrimps bred in captivity |
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Viable hatchery technology for Penaeus indicus, P. modnodon and P. Semisulcatus.
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Hatchery technology for potentially important shrimps P. merguiensis, P. latisulcatus, Metapenaeus monoceros and M. dobsoni.
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Induced maturation of P. indicus and P. semisulcatus through environmental and feed management and without resorting to eye-stalk ablation.
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Repeated spawning without affecting the quality and quantity of progeny. |
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Technology for semi-intensive farming of P. indicus, P. monodon and P. semisulcatus.
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Farming technology for potentially important shrimps P. merguiensis, P. latisulcatus, P. japonicus, M. dobsoni and M. monoceros. |
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Sea ranching technique – post larvae of P. semisulcatus, 120 million seeds would have to be ranched to obtain an increase of 50 t in the trawl landings
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Fattening of the spiny lobster Panulirus homarus by endocrine management
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Mud crab fattening on a commercial scale and their live transport
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Hatchery technology for Portunus pelagicus, reared through F1, F2, and F3 generation |
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Farm site selection, water quality and farm management |
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Shrimp/crab larval feed – micro algal culture |
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Farm feeds – pelletted artificial feeds for each species during different phase of growth; feed management
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Disease monitoring – identification of parasities – preventive measures for parasitic infestation.
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Molluscan Mariculture Technologies |
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Developed and upgraded pearl production technology in the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata |
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Induced spawning for 10 bivalve species achieved
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Hatchery technology for mass production of the seed of 2 species of pearl oyster; one species of edible oyster; 2 species of mussel and 5 species of clam have been developed.
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Technology developed for seed/spat collection from wild/nature for edible oyster and pearl oyster.
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Technologies for edible oyster (Crassostrea madrasensis) culture have been developed. The rack & tray method can yields 130 t/ha/year; the ren method 80 t/ha/year and the stake method 20 t/ha/year.
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Technology for, both, open sea mussel farming and culture in the estuarine waters has been developed for 2 species of mussels (Perna indica, P. viridis). Production of 12-14 Kg/meter of rope/6 months has been established
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Developed package of practice for clam culture
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Sea ranching of clams in natural waters for stock enhancement/conservation has been developed and standardized. |
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Established the optimum levels of abiotic environment (eg. Salinity and temperature) requirements for several bivalves.
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Predation, boring and parasitic infesation in the farmed bivalves have been studies and preventive regimes established.
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Tissue-specific genetic variations in edible oyster (Crassostrea madrasensis) has been traved and genetically similar stocks have been identified
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| Mariculture Technology for Other Marine Biota |
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Farming technology for agar and algin yielding seaweeds in coastal lagoons and bays. |
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Production of seaweed through vegetative and spore culture methods.
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Seaseed post harvest technology for commercial application. |
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Technology for the mass culture of eleven species of micro algae including diatoms and phytoflagellates |
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Technology for the mass cuslture of zooplankters such as rotifers, cladocerans and brine shrimp.
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The technology for breeding and induced spawning of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra.
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Rearing and fattening of sea cucumbers under captive conditions for commercial market.
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