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20/08/22 04:00 AM IST

Aquaculture project

In News 
  • Technology Development Board(TDB) (a statutory body under the DST) is funding its first ever ‘Aquaculture’ project using ‘state of the art’ Israeli technology for the production of Tilapia Fish”.
Tilapia Fish 
  • Tilapia’ (also called “aquatic chicken” due to its quick growth and low maintenance) is one of the most productive and internationally traded food fish in the world.
  • It belongs to the family Cichlidae, native to Africa and the Middle East
  • It can adapt to a wide variety of conditions and has omnivorous food habits
  • It has also turned ‘invasive’ in some parts of India.
  • Under the project, Tilapia will be grown from the imported parent broodstock ‘Hermon’ from Israel.
  • Hermon is a hybrid of two selected strains of Tilapia, namely Oreochromis Niloticus (Male) and Oreochromis Aureus (Female), and shows:
  • high growth rate
  • resistance to low temperature
  • all hybrid fry progeny of males only
Significance 
  • Tilapia’ has emerged to be one of the most productive and internationally traded   food   fish   in   the   world.
  • The culture of tilapia has become commercially popular in many parts of the  world  and  the  fishery experts have dubbed the tilapia as “aquatic chicken” due to its quick growth and low maintenance cultivation. 
PMMSY 
  • PMMSY is a flagship scheme for focused and sustainable development of the fisheries sector in the country as a part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
  • Adopt ‘Cluster or Area-based Approaches’ and create fisheries clusters through backward and forward linkages.
  • Focus especially on employment generation activities such as seaweed and ornamental fish cultivation.
  • Address critical gaps in fish production and productivity, quality, technology, post-harvest infrastructure and management, modernisation and strengthening of the value chain, traceability, establishing a robust fisheries management framework and fishers’ welfare.
  • Consolidate the achievements of the blue revolution and bring new interventions such as fishing vessel insurance, support for new/up-gradation of fishing vessels/boats, integrated aqua parks, e-trading/marketing, etc.
  • The scheme targets to enhance fish production to 220 lakh metric tons by 2024-25, at an average annual growth rate of about 9%.
  • The ambitious scheme also aims to double the export earnings to Rs.1,00,000 crore and generate about 55 lakhs direct and indirect employment opportunities in fisheries sector over a period of next five years.
Source- PIB 

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