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Calicut Research Centre of CMFRI - Recent Activities and Accomplishments This Centre implemented 11 inhouse projects 6 sponsored projects and one consultancy project investigated by 5 Scientists during the reporting period. A. Major achievements of this Centre - Research • Culture of Etroplus suratensis in Beach pond: 5000 seeds of Pearl spot were introduced on 22.10.2011 for culture at Beach Pond of Beach Hatchery Complex. • Diurnal oxygen curve constructed as well as the simultaneous insitu incubation of water samples carried out during three different occasions in the Padanna estuary () indicated heterotrophic conditions during the active mussel farming (more than 262 units) seasons. • Considerable decrease in the wet harvestable biomass (canopy) of seagrass beds in three atolls of Laccadive Archipelago occurred due to grazing pressure by turtles when compared to the values available 20 years ago. • Throughout the year the levels of Hg and As in all the major fish groups studied from Calicut coast were within the permissible levels. • Marine landings of small pelagics along Calicut (Puthiyappa and landing harbours) showed increase in the landings of oilsardine to the tune of 1613.5 tonnes and decrease in the landings of mackerel to the tune of 475.5 tonnes over the previous year. • Green Tide due to toxic bloom of Chattonella marina (Subrahmanyan) Hara et Chihara along the entire Calicut coast was observed during 27-9-2011 to 17-10- 2011 at varying intensities and associated with mass mortality of fingerlings of Otolithus sp, Cyanoglossus sp. and Liza sp and mole crab Emerita asiatica from the very next day onwards. • Large extensive seagrass bed of Halophila beccarii (Ashers) was observed from community reserve area close to the bird sanctuary measuring an area of two hactares. • Growth rate of Rhizophora saplings planted in estuary registered height of 2.5 cm/ month and canopy width of 2.8 cm/month. • Growth rate of saplings of Sonneretia apetalae at Kadalundi estuary registered average height of 5.64 cm/month. • Achieved success in breeding and rearing of the Bamboo shark Chyllocilium griseum in the Marine Research Aquarium. • Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802), popularly known as pearlwing shell comprising adults ( (TL-48.94 mm, HL- 73.63 mm and thickness- 18.51mm) and spats attached to flower type gorgonids ( Leptogorgia sp) were observed from the mussel bed at a depth of 3.5to 4.0 m off the south beach, Calicut on 1- 5- 2011.

• The total marine fish landings along the coast during 2011 registered 743123 t which was 22.2 % more than that (6038330 t) of 2010. The overall increase recorded was mainly due to the increased production recorded by Oil sardine (+ 62760t), Thread fin breams (+33185 t ) & Ribbon fish (+17514t ) . • The major gears that supported the fishery were Seines nets (57.0 %), Trawl nets (30.3 %), Gillnets (7.6 %) and Hooks & lines (3.3 %). • The cat fish fishery which was once considered almost collapsed seems to be on the revival path with 321.4 % increase over 2010. • In , Total catch by pole and line, troll line, drift gillnet, encircling gill net, hand line and long line registered 6428.5 t showing decline by 33.7 % over the previous year. • Tunas formed 69.0 % (4437.5 t) declined by 56.3 % over 2010. • Other fishes and elasmobranches 31.0 % (1991.0 t) increased by 10.0 % over 2010. • T.albacares and G. unicolor catches in 2011 increases by 976.6 % and 27.0 % respectively. • K. pelamis , E.affinis and A.thazard catches in 2011 declined by 80.9 %, 6.4 % and 33.7 % respectively. B. Special infrastructure developed BOD incubator- Rs.57680/; Thermofilters(2Nos)- Rs.57500/; Deionizer (Millipore, ultrapure) Rs.1, 79,877/ and Electric motors (3 nos)-Rs.23847. C. Revenue generation • This Centre generated income of Rs . 5,67,867 - through marine research aquarium (Rs.4,88,790), algal feed sale (Rs.1800), auctioning of fish samples(Rs.1655), auctioning of condemned stores(Rs.73,560) and sale of old newspapers etc(Rs.1062). D. Awards • TVR Pillai Aquaculture award: Molluscan Fisheries Division Team of this Centre comprising two Scientists (Dr P.K Asokan and Dr Laxmilatha) and two Technical Officers (Shri MP Sivadasan and VG. Surendranathan) were selected for this year’s TVR Pillai Aquaculture award for their contribution to the field of Mussel farming along Kerala coast. • Dr P.K.Asokan, Senior Scientist shared Best Poster Award with two other Scientists from Marine Biotechnology Division for the poster presented to the 8th International symposium on Diseases in Asian Aquaculture, held at College of Fisheries from 21-24 th Nov 2011. • Recognition: Shi. P.P.Balakrishnan of who was trained by Calicut Centre of CMFRI on mussel farming at Padanna was awarded Kerala Govt

Aquaculture award-2011 for mussel farming. E. Celebrations: -CMFRI Foundation Day In connection with the foundation Day Celebration of CMFRI, along with farm innovators’ day an open house for the benefit of the students and public was held at the conference hall of the Calicut Research Centre on 3.2.12. An interaction meeting with fishers, fish farmers and industry entrepreneurs was held. This programme was inaugurated by Shri. Sujan, Councilor, Corporation at 1000 hrs in the office premises. For the benefit of the students and fishers briefings were made on Mussel farming (Dr P.K.Asokan), Pearl farming (K.P.Said Koya), Marine fisheries of (Dr.P.P.Manojkumar) and Seaweeds and seaweed farming (Dr Gulshad Mohammed). More than 400 students, public and fishers and from fishery industry visited the office.

View of the audience during the CMFRI -Foundation Day celebration at Calicut Centre

F. Publications: a) Research Articles 1. Manojkumar.P.P. 2011. Fishery of sciaenids with some observations on the biology and stock assessment of Johnieops sina (Cuvier, 1830) exploited along the Malabar coast. J. Mar.Biol. Ass. India , 53 (1) : 68-74.

2. Ghosh, Shubhadeep, R. Thangavelu, Gulshad Mohamed, H.K. Dhokia, M.S. Zala, Y.D. Savaria, J.P.Polara and A.A. Ladani. 2011. Sudden emergence of fishery and some aspects of biology and population dynamics of Aluterus monoceros (Linnaeus, 1758) at Veraval. Indian J. Fish., 58 (1): 31-34.

3. Kaladharan, P., K. Vijayakumaran, V.V. Singh, P.S. Asha, Bindu Sulochanan, P.K. Asokan, K.K.Valsala, S.Veena, L. Jayasankaran and H.M. Bint, 2012. Assessment of certain Anthropogenic Interventions and their Impacts along the Indian Coastline. Fishery Technology 49 : 32-37.

4. Kaladharan, P., P.K.Krishnakumar, D.Prema, A.Nandakumar, L.R.Khambadkar and K.K.Valsala, 2011. Assimilative capacity of Cochin inshore waters with reference to Contaminants received from the backwaters and the upstream areas. Indian J.Fish ., 58 (2): 75-83.

5. Sarangi, R. K. and Gulshad Mohamed, 2011. Seasonal algal bloom and water quality around the coastal Kerala during southwest using insitu and satellite data. Indian J. Geomar.Sci., 42 (3): 356-369.

6. Kaladharan, P., P.K.Asokan and K.P.Said Koya, 2011. Revival of bleached Zoanthus sociatus ( Ellis & Solander, 1786) in the intertidal waters of Thikkodi, Malabar Coast, Kerala. J. Mar.Biol. Ass. India , 53 (1) : 157-159.

7. Kaladharan, P., P.U.Zacharia and K.Vijayakumaran, 2011. Coastal and marine floral biodiversity along coast. J. Mar.Biol. Ass. India , 53 (1) :121-129.

8. Veena , S. and P.Kaladharan, 2012. The first record of Cavernularia orientalis (Thompson & Simpson, 1909: Octocorallia: Pennatulaceae, Veratillidae) from the bay coast of Visakhapatnam, Andhrapradesh. Zootaxa, 3204 : 61-64.

9. Zacharia, P U and Mohamed, K S and Sathianandan, T V and Asokan, P K and Krishnakumar, P K and Abdurahiman, K P and Durgekar, N Raveendra and Shettigar, Veena (2011) Alpha, beta and gamma diversity of fished marine taxa along the southwest coast of India during 1970-2005. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 53 (1). pp. 21-26.

10. Sanil, N K and Asokan, P K and John , Lijo and Vijayan, K K (2011) Pathological manifestations of the acanthocephalan parasite, Tenuiproboscis sp. in the mangrove red snapper (Lutjanus argentimaculatus) (Forsskål, 1775), a candidate species for aquaculture from Southern India . Aquaculture , 310 (3-4). pp. 259-266. 11. Anderson, Frank E and Engelke, Ryan and Jarrett, Kelsey and Valinassab, Tooraj and Mohamed, K S and Asokan, P K and Zacharia, P U and Nootmorn, Praulai and Chotiyaputta, Cherdchinda and Dunning, Malcolm (2011) Phylogeny of the Sepia pharaonis species complex (Cephalopoda: Sepiida) based on analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Journal of Molluscan Studies , 77 . pp. 65-75.

12. Koya, K P Said and Akhilesh, K V and Bineesh, K K (2011) New record of Titan cardinalfish, Holapogon maximus (Apogonidae) along the south-west coast of India. Marine Biodiversity Records , MBA UK 4 (e36). pp. 1-2.

13. Mohamed, K.S., G. Sasikumar, K.P.Said Koya, V.Venkatesan, V. Kripa, R. Durgekar, M.Joseph, P.S.Alloycious, R. Mani and D.Vijay, 2011. Know… the Master of the - Purple back Flying Squid, Stenoteuthis oualaniensis , NAIP Booklet, 20 p.

b) Popular Articles 14. Manojkumar.P.P. 2011. Occurrence of handfish Halieutaea stellata in Malabar region. Cadalmin : CMFRI News letter No: 128: 7. 15. Manojkumar.P.P. and P.K.Asokan, 2011. Experiment on breeding and rearing of the bamboo shark in Aquarium successful at Calicut RC. Cadalmin : CMFRI News letter No: .131: 21. 16. Manojkumar.P.P..and P.P.Pavitjran. 2012. First record of bandfish, Acanthocepola limbata (Valencienness, 1835) from Malabar region. Mar. Fish. Infor. Se. T&E Ser ., No. 208, 11 17. Manojkumar, P. P., P. K. Asokan and P. Kaladharan. 2012. Bumper catch of green mussel in Chettikulam, Calicut. Mar. Fish. Infor. Se. T&E Ser ., No. 208;33 18. Manojkumar. P. P. 2012. First record of albinism in the blacktip reef shark Carcharhinus melanopterus from Malabar coast. Mar. Fish. Infor. Se. T&E Ser ., No. 208:36 19. Said Koya, K.P., 2011. Occurrence of Pteria sp in inshore waters of Calicut. Cadalmin : CMFRI News letter No: .129: 15pp. 20. Prathiba, P., E.M.Abdusamad, K. P.Said Koya, M.Sivadas and S.Gosh, 2011. Tuna fishery of India with special reference to biology and population Characteristics of neritic tunas exploited from Indian EEZ. IOTC , 2011 WPNT 01-10.

c) Presented to Seminar/Symposia/ Workshops :

21. . Anoop. B, K.S.S.M. Yousuf, K.S. Abhilash, P.P.Manojkumar, R. Jayabhaskaran and E. Vivekananadan. 2011. Cetacean distribution in the Indian EEZ and contiguous seas during 2008-10. In : Dr.S.Jones Centenary Colloquim in Marine Mammal Conservation and Research in the , Keynote and Posters (Eds..Kripa and Vijayagopal P) Marine Biological Association of India, August 26-27, 2011, ,.p,32. 22. . Manojkumar, P P. and P.P.Pavithran.2011. Status of demersal finfish fishery resources of Malabar region. P44. In. `Gopalakrishnan, A et al. (Eds.), Renaissance in Fisheries: Outlook and Strategies – Book of Abstracts, 9 th Indian fisheries Forum, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi and Asian Fisheries Society, Indian Branch, 19-23 December, 2011, Chennai, India,381 23. . Radhakrishnan, E.V., A.P.Dinesh Babu, Sobha Kizhakudan, P.P.Manojkumar, Sujitha Thomas, G. Maheswarudu, K.K.Philipose, S.Lakshmi Pillai, Rekha D. Chakraborty, R.Sathiadas, Shubadeep Ghosh, R.Thangavelu, J.Jayasankar and Gyanaranjan Dash. In. `Gopalakrishnan, A et al. (Eds.), Renaissance in Fisheries: Outlook and Strategies – Book of Abstracts, 9 th Indian fisheries Forum, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi and Asian Fisheries Society, Indian Branch, 19-23 December, 2011, Chennai, India, 381. 24. . Kaladharan, P. P.K.Asokan, P.P.Manojkumar, K.P.Said Koya and Gulshad Mohamed, 2011. Calicut ke Thikkodi thad ki samudri jaive sampadavom ki thalika. (in Hindi). Eò±ÉÉvÉ®úxÉ. {ÉÒ., {ÉÒ.Eäò.+¶ÉÉäEòxÉ, {ÉÒ.{ÉÒ.¨ÉxÉÉäVÉEÖò¨ÉÉ®ú,Eäò.{ÉÒ.ºÉènùEäò.{ÉÒ.ºÉènù EòÉäªÉÉ +É®èú MÉֱɶÉÉnù ¨ÉÉä½þ¨¨Énù 2011 EòÉʱÉEò]õ ÊiÉCEòÉäb÷Ò iÉ]õ EòÒ ºÉ¨ÉÖpùÒ VÉè´É ºÉÆ{ÉnùÉ+Éå EòÒ iÉÉʱÉEòÉ ,EåòpùÒªÉ ºÉ¨ÉÖpùÒ ¨ÉÉÎiºªÉEòÒ +xÉÖºÉÆvÉÉxÉ ºÉƺlÉÉxÉ,EòÉäSÉÒxÉ,VÉè´ÉÊ´ÉÊ´ÉvÉiÉÉ - ʴɶÉä¹É |ÉEòɶÉxÉ ºÉÆ. 106 {ÉÖ¹`ö ºÉÆ. 59-69

26-43, 20 abstracts presented to 9 th IFF, Chennai by scientists and technical Officers of Calicut Centre

G. Institutional/Individual representation in National/International/ Committees/ Delegations

1. Dr.P.Kaladharan, Dr. P.P.Manojkumar and Sri K.P. SaidKoya attended the Dr.S.Jones Centenary Colloquium in Marine Mammal Conservation and Research in the Indian Ocean at CMFRI, Cochin during August 26-27, 2011.

2. Dr.P.Kaladharan, Dr.P.K.Asokan, Dr. P.P.Manojkumar and Sri K.P.Said Koya (Scientists) and Sri M.P.Sivadasan and Sri V.G. Surendranathan (Technical Officers) attended the 9th Indian Fisheries Forum at Chennai from 19-12-11 to 23-12-11.

3. Dr.P.Kaladharan, DR. P.K.Asokan, Dr.P.P.Manojkumar and Shri K.P.Said Koya attended the international seminar on Emerging issues in Asian Aquaculture organized by NACA at CMFRI, Cochin. on 12 th May 2011 .

4. Dr.P.Kaladharan, DR. P.K.Asokan, Dr.P.P.Manojkumar, Shri K.P.Said Koya and Dr. Gulshad Mohamed attended the international symposium on Large Marine Ecosystems by the Programme at Chennai on 21-12- 2011.

5. Dr.P.Kaladharan, DR. P.K.Asokan, Dr.P.P.Manojkumar, Shri K.P.Said Koya and Dr. Gulshad Mohamed attended the international workshop on Fisheries Management for Sustainable Livelihoods (FIMSUL) of FAO on 20-12-2011.

6. Dr. P.Kaladharan, Principal Scientist and scientist in charge attended the Meeting cum Workshop of the Heads of Divisions and Research Centres of the ICAR Institutes at CIAE, Bhopal during 14-15 th June 2011.

7. Shri K.P.Said Koya participated in the IOTC Working Party Meeting on Neritic Tunas at Chennai from 14-16 November 2011 . 8. Shri K.P.Said Koya participated in the IOTC Capacity Building Workshop at Chennai from 17-18 November 2011 9. Dr. P.Kaladharan served as external Member to the DPC for clearance of probation and confirmation of Scientists and Adm staff of IISR, Calicut on 3 rd Novemebr 2011. 10. Dr. P.Kaladharan served as external Member to the DPC for Promotion to JTA of IISR, Calicut on 24 th February 2012. 11. Dr. P. Kaladharan, Principal Scientist and Scientist in charge was invited to attend the State level KVK Interface Meeting in Kerala and Lakshadweep on 7- July 2011 at KAU, Mannuthy, . 12. Dr. P. Kaladharan , Principal Scientist and SIC of Calicut Centre served as Expert for the selection committee for Research Assistant at IISR, Calicut on 30- 11-2011. 13. Dr. P. Kaladharan , Principal Scientist and SIC of Calicut Centre was invited to participate in the discussion on the research needs in the fisheries sector organized by MICTRA, Kozhicode on 21-11—2011 in connection with the World Fish Workers’ Day. 14. Shri K.P.Said Koya, Scientist SG attended the seminar on “Integrated Development of Coastal Area” organised by ‘Jeevana’ and CADAL in Kala auditorium ,Calicut .on 23 rd .June .2011. 15. Shri K.P.Said Koya, Scientist SG participated in the Workshop on The Indian Tuna Resources at CMFRI, Cochin from 25 - 30 July 2011. 16. Shri K.P.Said Koya, Scientist SG participated in the Workshop on Tuna stock assessment at CMFRI, Cochin from 28-30 November 2011. 17. Shri K.P.Said Koya, Scientist SG Participated in the cruise on board ‘Nasarulla’ for resource assessment of Oceanic Squids at Agatti from 07-12 December 2011. and again during 17-24 January 2012 18. Dr. P. Kaladharan , Principal Scientist and SIC of Calicut Centre served as Expert for the selection committee for Research Assistant at IISR, Calicut on 30 th Nov 2011.

H. Exhibitions participated- one at , Dist Calicut Research Centre of CMFRI represented CMFRI in the Public Information Campaign Exhibition organised by Press Information Bureau, Cochin and other media units under the Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting at Thondiyil, Peravoor, from 8- 10 th June 2011 (Photo attached).

Shri. Sunny Joseph, MLA., Peravoor visiting the CMFRI Stall on 8-6-2011

I. Distinguished Visitors

DG ICARI and Secretary DARE, Govt of India visited this Centre on 1-5- 2011. DG, ICAR visited the Centre along with Director, IISR Calicut and Dr Ananadaraj, Project Coordinator, All India coordinated project on . The DG visited all the laboratories, beach farm and hatchery complex and interacted with the Scientists and other staff. The DG remarked that under the able directions of our Director the research activities of this Centre are focused and are capable of addressing the regional issues (Photo attached).

The Secretary, DARE and Director General ICAR during his visit to Calicut RC of CMFRI. Dr. Parthasarathy Director, IISR on the left

J. Official Language Implementation

OLIC of this Centre was reconstituted and the quarterly meeting of the OLIC was held on 1st June 2011. The 52 nd Meeting of the TOLIC was attended by the SIC and the OLIC member secretary at Calicut. All the scientists jointly prepared a research paper on the biodiversity of Thikkodi coast and submitted to the National Scientific seminar in official Language at CMFRI Kochi. Shri K.P.Said Koya Scientist S G participated in the joint workshop on official language organized by the Calicut TOLIC on 26 th April.2011 and Shri P.P.Pavithran, T-5 attended the Joint Hindi Workshop on 13-9-2011 at the zonal office, State Bank of , Calicut.

Workshops conducted in Official Language

One Workshop was conducted on the forenoon of 30-6-2011 on Noting and Drafting. Smt. A.J. Deepa, Superintendent (OL) Airport Authority of India, Calicut was the resource person. All the staff members participated.

Another Computer Workshop on Unicode familiarization was organized on the afternoon of 30-6-2011. Unicode software was installed in as many computers of Hatchery complex, and main office. Shri P. Pramodh, Senior Hindi Translator, Telecom Office, Nadakkavu Calicut was the invited as the resource person. All the participants had hand on experience to work with the new software.

Hindi week celebrations conducted in this Centre during 14- 21 st September 2011. Various competitions in official language were conducted during the week for the staff and the winners were awarded prizes and encouraged with incentives.

K. Promotions Smt K.Balamani promoted to Assistant with effect from 9-11-2011 Sri . A.Anasukoya promoted to T-4 with effect from10-5-2010 Sri. M.M.Bhaskaran promoted to T-4 with effect from01.01.2011 Sri. C.Chandran promoted to T-3 with effect from 01-02-2011

L. Retirements Shri T.K.Sudhakaran, T-5 retired on superannuation on 30-4-2011 Smt. K.Tara, T-5 retired on superannuation on 31-5-2011 Shri. K.Janardhanan, SSS retired on superannuation on 31-1-2012

M. Human Resource Development

1. Dr.P.P.Manojkumar, Sr. Scientist attended a training programme on “Data Mining and GIS for Decision Support in Agriculture” at IIM, Lucknow from 28.3.11 to 08.4.11 2. Shri N.P.ramachandran, T-3 attended a workshop on prawn taxonomy: recent advances and revision of nomenclature- organized by CFD of CMFRI, 14- 19th Feb 2011. 3. Shri P.P. Pavithran, T-5 attended workshop on analytical methods in fish stock assessment with special emphasis on tuna like resources at CMFRI Cochin from 7-11 March 2011. 4. Shri V.A. Kunhikoya, T-5 and Shri N.P.Ramachandran, T-3 attended software training on photoshop, coral draw and page maker at CMFRI Cochin 5. Smt K.P.Shylaja, UDC and Shri A.Anasukoya, T-4 attended software training on Access at CMFRI from 1st to 9th February 2011. 6. ShriA.Ansukoya, T-4, shri M.M.Bhaskaran, T-4 and Shri C.Chandran, T-3 attended a training on finfish culture and breeding at Mandapam Regional Centre from 15th to 25th February 2012. 7. Shri K.Chandran, T-4 and Shri K.C.Pradeepkumar, T-4 attended training on taxonomy of demersal fish resources at CMFRI Cochin from 22- 28th February 2012 8. Dr. P.Kaladharan, PS and SIC, Calicut Centre attended a training on Laboratory accreditation at NABL. Jaipur from 26-29th March 2012.

Infrastructure approved Nature of work amount Status

Renovation of office and marine Rs. 19,99,500 Work nearing completion hatchery

Seawater pumping to Beach Rs. 29,61,700 Money deposited to CPWD Farm complex Beach Farm renovation Rs. 24,97,400 Money deposited to CPWD

Extension of office cum Rs. 94,89,000 Money deposited to CPWD laboratories

Dense bed of seagrass Halophila beccarii (Aschers) at Kadalundi

Rare fishes recorded from Malabar region

Diodon hystrix (Linnaeus, 1758) Antennarius indicus (Schultz, 1964)

Chascanopsetta lugubris , pelican flounder Pseudanthias sp

Chelidoperca investigatoris (Alcock, 1895) Roa jayakari (Norman, 1939)

Albino blacktip reef shark Brotula multibarbata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) Carcharhinus melanopterus