India: CMFRI to provide technical support for strengthening sustainable harvest of selected trawl fishery of Kerala

Kochi: In order to boost seafood export from India, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Kochi will provide technical backstopping for strengthening the sustainable harvest of 11 selected shrimp and cephalopod trawl fishery resources of Kerala, following a request from the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI). The institute will carry out a consultancy research project aimed at assessing the stock health and fishery performance of kiddi (karikadi) shrimp, flower tail (poovalan) shrimp, red ring deep sea shrimp, nylon shrimp, deep sea non-penaid shrimp, squid, cuttlefish, octopus, ribbon fish and two species of threadfin breams. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday by Dr A Gopalakrishnan, Director of CMFRI and AJ Tharakan of the SEAI. The consultancy project aims to achieve a slew of objectives, including setting fisheries management target levels for these species, reporting on the incidental occurrence of sawfish, guitarfish and ...