CMFRI Annual Report 1999-2000

. Eventhough the achievements of the past have been rated high, the millennium challenge is to ensure a reasonable per capita seafood to our countrymen and to widen our seafood export trade in the coming decade. The hard option is to increase production through 1) careful treading of measures to ensure sustained yields from the present capture fisheries sector, 2) development of strategies for exploitation of deep sea and oceanic resources, 3) domestication of candidate species and utilization of potential areas for mariculture through upgradation of technologies, 4) Human Resource Development, and 5) transfer of technology programmes. The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has the Mandate to address these issues and has been consistently contributing to the needs of the industry and Government through its Research, Education, Extension and Consultancy programmes