Sri Vijaya Puram, Nov. 21: The Department of Fisheries, A&N Administration celebrated World Fisheries Day today at Fisheries Training Centre, Marine Hill flagging the national theme ‘India’s Blue Transformation: Strengthening Small Scale and Sustainable Fisheries’. Shri Vishwendra, DANICS, Secretary (Fisheries) was the chief guest on this occasion.

Shri Vishwendra wished the gathering on this occasion and explained recent developments undertaken in Mariculture, Brackish Water Aquaculture and Cold Chain sectors of the Islands. He also emphasized the need of involvement of small scale fishermen and fish farmers in implementation of fisheries and aquaculture policy objectives for promotion of entrepreneurship and income generation in the sector. He informed the gathering about the proposal of creation of Modern Fish Market and Cold Chain infrastructure for the use of Dignabad fishermen community and the model adopted will be the best of its kind and will be replicated in other places also.