STATUS REPORTS AND BACKGROUND PAPERS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY CENTRAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, COCHIN CENTRAL INLAND FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, BARRACKPORE CENTRAL INSTITUTE OP FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY, COCHIN CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES EDUCATION. BOMBAY - —^ SEMINAR ON FISHERIES EXTENSION ;i^^v^f* COCHIN, 8-10 DECEMBER 1980 It: STATUS REPORTS AND BACKGROUND PAPERS ICAR JOINTLY ORGANISED BY CENTRAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, COCHIN CENTRAL INLAND FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, BARRACKPORE CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY, COCHIN CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES EDUCATION, BOMBAY '^tf i PREFACE tonnes were to be realised, it would need all our XTENSiON is a system which is used as an will to harness the technologies for intensive instrument to bring about change, be it socio­ production in the capture as well as culture sec­ logical or technological. It is a multidimensional tors and make extension system the comer-stone system with interrelationships, linkages and tran­ of development. The communication gap sactions between and among the internal and between technology system - extension system - external domains and aims at causing planned finance system - client system - utilisation system, change or progress in the target fl.eld as per the etc. is so vast that unless a serious effort is made greater sociological and econo-logical changes to bridge the gaps and establish viable linkages desired by the political will of the people. In and interrelationships among them it would not view of this crucial role, any programme be possible to bring into fruition desired produc­ planning for development has to include the tion levels and social goals, that is to usher in a extension system as an integral component. "fisheries culture". Unfortunately this aspect has been lost sight of in our development plans on Fisheries and even the small beginning that was made in the Deeply conscious of the above stated facts fifties became dissipated. Today what we find highlighting the important role extension has in the form of extension service in the Fisheries to play and the temporal appropriateness in Department of a few States is nothing but an relation to the current phase of development, the apology for extension system proper. In the words Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute of the National Commission on Agriculture (CMFRI), jointly with the Central Inland Fisheries "Absence of adequate work in fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), Central Institute extension has been one of the principal reasons of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) and Central for the slow pace of inland fisheries development". Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE), decided to organise a SEMINAR ON FISHERIES EXTENSION. Extension service in marine fisheries sector is The Indian Council of Agricultural Research much less enviable. (ICAR), under whose administrative control the above Institutes function, is a body responsible The character of fisheries development has for agricultural research, education and extension vastly changed today and we are in the threshold education in the country and is not directly of a new era, armed with better knowledge of the engaged in extension. However, the initiative for fishery resources, the possession of an Exclusive organising the Seminar on Fisheries Extension ^onomic Zone in our seas, improved and new was taken by CMFRI and, the ICAR, recognising technologies for increasing production through the importance of the subject, immediately Cloture, a well-established processing industry, supported the proposal. greater research support and, above all, a realisa­ tion of its potentid as one of Nation's major assets and we have the political will to assign The objective of the Seminar is to provide a priority to this sector. Ironically, this is counter­ forum to those engaged in fisheries extension to poised with a weak-kneed extension system which meet and discuss the present state of art of is totally inadequate and incompetent to meet the extension, identify the lacunae and evolve an action new challenges and opportunities. plan for strengthening and streamlining fisheries extension in the country. Primarily, the Fisheries Even after witnessing the sea-change brought Departments of the States/Union Territories are about in agriculture and animal husbandry through responsible for fisheries extension. The Fisheries extension service, we have kept cool on fisheries Di^^ton of the Department of Agriculture and extension. If any sizable increase in fish produc­ Cooperation in the Ministry of Agriculture, tion from the present level of about 2.2 million Government of India is the planning and policy •••^5 making body for fisheries development in the and make extension an inalienable organic link country. The Extension Directorate of the above of fisheries planning and development through a Ministry has the responsibility of extension pro­ public policy. grammes in the agriculture sector at the Centre. The Fisheries Faculties of Agricultural Univer­ I am grateful to Dr. O. P. Gautam, Director sities, some with Fisheries College, have in the General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research recent years taken up fisheries education at the for his guidance and advice in organising the graduate and post-graduatie levels. The three present Seminar. I am also grateful to Shri ICAR Institutes, namely the CMFRI, CIFRI and S. P. Mukerji, Additional Secretary (ADF), CIFT, are the premier organisations responsible Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, for for fisheries research and the CIFE is in charge his' spontaneous support to the Seminar. Late Shri G. K. Kuriyan, former Director, CIFT was of fisheries education. While planning the a source of imrtiense strength in planning the Seminar, it was decided that all these organisations Seminar. I have drawn valuable ;suppoft from may be requested to send status reports and Dr. S. N. Dwivedi, Director, CIFE, Dr. A. V. background papers on fisheries extension work Natarajan, Director, CIFRI and Shri M. R. Nair, done by them which would form the basic material then Director-in-Charge, CIFT in organising the to initiate the discussion at the Seminar. These Seminar. Dr. C. P. Pandurariga Rao, Director, reports/papers have been put together in the CIFT has given support for the conduct of the present publication to make it a document of the Seminar. There has been a good response from Seminar. the Departments of Fisheries of the States/Union Territories to provide the status reports on fish­ It is intended that the three-day Seminar, to eries extension and I am thankftil to the following be held at Cochin during 8-10 December 1980, Directors: Shri M. M. Mohanty (Orissa), Shri will devote its attention to deliberate all aspects C. Chellappan (Tamilnadu), Shri A. G. Vasavan of fisheries extension, draw parallels from the (Kerala), Shri K. Sripad Rao (Karnataka), Shri success of extension in agriculture and consider S. Banerjee (Andhra Pradesh), Shri S. S. Naik adopting a system suited to the fisheries sector, (Maharashtra), Shri A. K. Kawatra (Punjab), review the status of extension education and Dr. D. K. Kaushik (Haryana), Shri George training and evolve specific action plans for Varghese (Lakshadweep), Shri E; Purushothanian strengthening fisheries extension system. It is (Pondicherry) and others. My thanks are due realised that this first Seminar on the subject to all the Institutes / Departments / Agricultural cannot fulfil all the tasks and find solutions to Universities and the authoi-s who have contributed all the problems; nevertheless it would contribute papers for the Seminar. I wish to record' my to a better understanding of the magnitude of the appreciation of the tireless efforts of Dr. K. problems and prospects at the National level and Alagarswami, Senior Scientist, CMFRI, in would form the basis for future discussions. We assisting me throughout in organising the Seminar would acquire consciousness of this vital force and bringing out this document. DR. E. G. SILAS Director, CMFRl Cochin, Convener 1st December 1980. Seminar on Fisheries Extension CONTENTS Preface Gommitteea nf Seminal I, STATUS REPORTS ON FISHERIES EXTENSION Editoi's Note A. COASTAL STATES 1. Department of Fisheries, Kerala, Tiivandium, (A.*^. Vasavan) 2. Depaitment-nrf Flslrertesj-Maharashtia, Bombay. (S.S. Jfeik) 3. Department of Fisheiiesj Tamilnadu, Madras. (C.Chellappan) 4. Department of Fisheries, G^jaiat, Ahmedabad.(U.L.Wadekar) 5. Department of Fisheries, Kainataka, Bangalore,(K.Siipad Rao) 6. Department of fisheries, Andhra Pradesh, Hydeiabad.( (M.Venkateshwaia Rao) 7. Department of Fisheries, Qrissa, Cuttack.(M.M.Mohanty) 8. Progress of Fisheries Extension Service in Orissa. (J.C.Roy) 9. The Saga of Fisheries Extension in Western Qrissa (M.K.Ahmed) 10. Role of FPDA Balasore In extension of intensive piscic-ulture. (R.K.Das) ~ 11. Department of Fiaheiies, Pondicherry.( S.Puiushothaman) 12. Department of Plaheries, TJ.'^.of Lalcshadv;eep,Kavaratti. (George Vaighese) -2- B, M)K-COASTAL STATES 15» Department of Fisheries, Aiunachal ft:adesh, New Itahnagai. (A.K. Das).. 14« Department of Fisheries, Haiyana, Chandigarh, (D.K.Kaushik). 15. Department of Fisheries, Rinjab, Chandigarh. (A.K, Kawatia)• 16. Fjsh & Wildlife Department, Sikkitn, Gangtok. (Fisheries Development Officer) II. FISHERIES EXTEMSICy IN Ar.RICIJLTI3RAL UNIVERSITIES 17« Fisheries extension and related activities in the University of Agricultural Sciences, Karnataka. - College of Fisheries, Mangalore (H.P.C.Shetty).