Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) - Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Cochin, india

Fisheries Environment Management Division (FEMD)

Areas of Research

	Marine pollution
	Conservation of Marine Turtles
	Stock and mass culture of phytoplankton
	Marine microbiology
	Mass culture of zooplankton
	Seaweed cultivation
	Holothurian culture
	Systematics of microinvertebrates and secondary production

Research Highlights
	Environmental impact Assessment studies for different Industries, Port Trust under consultancy projects
	Study the Net Productivity and Biological Oxygen Demand of the coastal waters and the aquaculture systems.
	Validation of potential Fishery Zone forecasts based on the imageries received from NRSA/SAC and fish catch data from the West coast of India.
	Conservation of marine turtles in different islands of Lakshadweep for the establishment of Sea turtle park.
	Resource survey of Seaweed in South east coast of Tamil Nadu, Assessment of seaweed landing, Mariculture of Gracilaria from spores and fragments
	Establishment of Agar factory and extraction of agar by industrial method at Mandapam.

Inhouse Projects
	Investigations on environmental parameters of inshore waters in relation to fisheries.
	Mariculture of live feed organisms
	Ecological Investigations on the inter-Tidal and surf zones of the Kerala and Kanyakumari Coasts in relation to finfish and shellfish seed and Juvenile resources.
	Monitoring the state of health of coastal Waters
	Resources assessment of seaweeds and their culture
	Sanitary significance of faecal Coliforms in selected coastal environments growing marine shellfishes

External-funded Projects
	ICAR Ad-hoc projects:
		Conservation of green turtle - Dr. M Rajagopalan
		Large scale cultivation of edulis by reproductive method - Reeta Jayashanker
		Studies on incidence of toxic principles and parasites in sea foods (Inter-Institutional Project) (CMFRI-CIFT) - Dr. C P Gopinathan.
	ICAR Revolving Project
		Production of Agar from the seaweeds of Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay - Dr. N . Kaliaperumal
	DOD Project:
		Investigations on the toxic algal blooms in EEZ of India - Dr. C P Gopinathan
	DBT Project:
		Transfer of technology of seaweed culture for Rural Development. - Dr. N . Kaliaperumal
	NATP Project:
		Impact of dams on river runoff into sea and changes in nutrient & productivity profile of Coastal waters. - Dr. P.K.Krishnakumar.

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