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Pawar for balanced approach to fishing

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KOCHI: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has stressed the need for balancing economic gains from marine fisheries with conservation and livelihood issues.

“We must now move to a regime of fisheries management that does not compromise reconciliation of conservation and livelihood issues on the one hand and national economic gains on the other,” he said after opening the diamond jubilee celebration of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) on Friday.

“While taking the harvest, we have to make sure that we are leaving enough in the sea so that we continue to catch enough fish in the future,” Mr. Pawar, President of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research, said.

The Minister said that given the emerging economic and ecological challenges, an integrated approach was necessary so that multiple linkages with other sectors of the economy could be ensured.

Mr. Pawar released a special postal cover commemorating the CMFRI diamond jubilee by presenting it to Postmaster-General Sobha Koshy. Fisheries Minister S. Sarma; ICAR Director-General Mangala Rai; Sebastian Paul, MP; Mayor Mercy Williams; CMFRI Director N.G.K. Pillai; and the former director Mohan Joseph Modayail spoke.

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