Add to ORKGNot AvailableThe paper deals with the research contributions of the central marine fisheries research Institute for the management and development of marine capture and culture fisheries of the country During the past four decades. The development of a stratified random sampling method for estimating the marine fish landings From the mostly artisanal type of fishing; the assessment of stock magnitudes of several exploited Commercial species and underexploited potential resources have been the major contributions in the Field of capture fisheries. Apart from routine monitoring of the environmental paramaters influencing the abundance And availability of commercial stocks, the institute undertook studies in basic problems like upwelli...