Crustacean Fisheries

• Stock assessment, estimation of biological reference points and trophodynamics of crustacean resources of maritime states of India and development of crustacean fisheries management advisories.
• Studies on impact of bycatch and discards in trawl fisheries and exploitation of juveniles on fish stock health.
• Establishment of co-management regimes for lobster fishery management in Tamilnadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
• Building trophic models and fisheries management simulations for the Indian Seas: Northwest coast
• Searanching of Green tiger shrimp, Penaeus semisulcatus for studies on stock enhancement
• Tag-recovery studies on movement and recruitment of shrimps to fishery
• Impact of climate change on fisheries

Research Projects

Xth Plan

In-house Research Projects

• Investigations on the fishery and biological characteristics of exploited penaeid shrimp stocks
• Stock assessment and management of non-penaeid shrimp resources of India
• Investigations on the resource characteristics and development of management strategies for lobsters and crabs
• Taxonomy of important crustaceans
• Broodstock development, selective breeding and restocking of marine shrimps
• Breeding and seed production of lobster and crabs
• Organic farming of Penaeus semisulcatus
• Impact of selective fishing of juveniles and broodfish, FADs and searanching on stock health
• Studies on discards and low-value bycatch of trawlers
• Appraisal of marine fisheries of Maharashtra

Other interdivisional projects

• Appraisal of marine fisheries of Kerala and Lakshadweep
• Appraisal of marine fisheries of Tamilnadu and Puducherry
• Appraisal of marine fisheries of Andhrapradesh
• Appraisal of marine fisheries of Karnataka

Xl th Plan

In-house Research Projects

• Management advisories for sustaining marine fisheries of Maharashtra
• Resource damage assessment in marine fisheries: impact of selective fishing of juveniles, bycatch and discards in trawl fisheries on stock.
• Management advisories for sustaining marine fisheries of Karnataka & Goa

Sponsored Research Projects

• Participatory management and conservation of lobster resources along the Indian coast
• Reproductive dynamics of penaeid prawns off Mumbai waters
• Broodstock development, breeding, hatchery production and restocking of mud crabs
• Development of artificial reefs off Muttom, Kannur
• Survey assessment and breeding of the marine ornamental fishes along Malabar coast
• Intensive culture of brine shrimp
• Studies on immune response in shrimp

Consultancy Projects

• Farming/fattening of lobsters
• Application of Precautionary Principle and Polluter Pay Principle in coastal shrimp farming
• Establishment of a Marine and Freshwater Aquarium for the Municipal Corporation of Surat, Gujarat
• Rapid Environmental Assessment for establishing an ocean park at Dharmadom, Thalassery, Kannur District, Kerala
• Establishment of a Marine Aquarium at Annamalai University, Portonovo

NAIP Project

• Oceanic tuna fisheries of Lakshadweep seas: A value chain approach

Related Links

• Salient achievements
• Species-wise distribution of penaeid shrimps
• Major species of lobsters
• Minimum legal size for export of lobsters from India
• Major species of crabs