Fishery Resources Assessment Division (FRAD) |
Activities
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Assessment and Monitoring of resource landings and the fishing effort along the Indian coast through a stratified multistage sampling design | |
Estimation of regionwise, specieswise and gearwise marine fish production | |
Development of models and methods for assessment of exploited stocks | |
Management of the National Marine Living Resources Data Centre and the database on the exploited marine living resources | |
Prediction of oilsardine fishery |
Training | ||
Assist in the training and teaching programmes of the Institute | ||
Computer Centre | ||
Management of the computer centre and the local area network |
Achievements | |
Fisheries Statistics and Stock Assessment | |
Standardised and implemented the Multistage Stratified Random Sampling Design for collection and estimation of marine fish landings in India. | |
Estimated marine fish production statewise, specieswise, gearwise together with effort expended. | |
Analysed the region-wise, assemblage-wise trends in production | |
Conducted Quinquennial Frame Surveys for determining the fisherfolk population, craft, gear and other infrastructure details. |
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