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‘Utilise vast fish potential’

Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Governor A. R. Kidwai on Friday urged fish experts and those connected with fisheries to utilise the vast fish potential available in the country to improve the economic condition of fishermen.

Inaugurating a two-day workshop on ‘Fisheries and Aquaculture policy – Alternative Livelihoods and sustainability Perspectives for Northern States’ organised by the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) here, Dr. Kidwai said that there was tremendous scope of inland fisheries with utilisation of wetlands along canals.

Disclosing that India was the largest exporter of marine fish in the world, he said that Indian farmers and fishermen were very enterprising and if they were given proper training, knowledge, finance and quality seeds, they could make their profession very profitable.

He asked vegetable and fish producers to explore the possibility of forming small cooperative societies for transporting and marketing their produce at reasonable rates in the market. Also fish farmers should get loans at reasonable rates from NABARD. CIFE director Dalip Kumar said that a series of workshops were being organised for formulating a comprehensive fishery policy.

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