The Hindu Business Line : `Ensuring hygiene at fishing harbours must'

WITH the insistence of the importing countries on stringent quality standards, there is a crisis brewing in the fishery sector which can be addressed only by providing quality and hygiene at the fishing harbours of the country, Dr K. Devadasan, Director of the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, has said.

Inaugurating the two-day national workshop on the status and future prospects of fishing harbours at Kochi, he stressed on the need for better statutory regulations to ensure that quality was not seen as a requirement merely for foreign markets alone. He also emphasised on the need for a separate Ministry of Fisheries.

Around 55 participants, including senior Government officials, engineers, scientists, trade unionists and boat operators, from different parts of the country attended the workshop, which is expected to conclude on Friday with a statement and recommendations on policy matters related to fishing harbours.

In a paper presented at the technical session on Thursday, Dr Monto Mani of Protsahan, a non-governmental organisation based in Thiruvananthapuram, analysed in detail the status of fishing harbours in Kerala, with case studies based on the nine harbours in the State.

The paper titled `Fishery harbours: Performance, issues and management concerns', traced the development of harbours in India from a historical perspective.

A session of invited responses was moderated by Dr K. Gopakumar, former Deputy Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and included speakers from the Central Institute of Coastal Engineering for Fishery (CICEF), the National Institute of Port Management, Department of Ocean Development, Department of Fisheries, Government of Gujarat, Mechanized Fishing Boat Operators Association, Veraval, and the Kerala State Fisheries Coordination Committee.

The proceedings of the first day of the workshop were summed up by Dr John Kurien, Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram.

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