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Fisheries department to meet Commerce and Industry Minister next week

Updated: Jun 21, 2018 10:49:32am
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Fisheries department to meet Commerce and Industry Minister next week

New Delhi, June 21 (KNN) A high-level team of the fisheries department will meet Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu next week to pursue the proposal for regional centers of the National Fisheries Development Board, the Central Aquaculture Authority (CAA) and the Central Institute of Brackish water Aquaculture (CIBA), Chennai.

In this regard, Additional Director K. Seetaramaraju said that the proposals have been sent and process of exercising proposals is speeding up.

Speaking at the press conference he said, “Regional body of the CAA will help in preventing production of seed in unauthorized hatcheries while the CIBA regional body will address the woes in getting access to various fish species seed in the State itself.”

The department, in collaboration with the CIBA, would set up a hatchery for supply of the seed of the Asian Seabass and Sylla Serreta, at Pandurangapuram in Guntur district in July.

For this, Seetaramaraju said Rs 38 crore including Rs 23 crore had been sanctioned.

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