Latest Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute News & Updates

Kochi, March 17 (IANS) The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has initiated a two-year, Rs 4.986 crore research programme to explore fishery resources linked to seamount ecosystems in the Arabian Sea, with a sharp focus on commercially and ecologically significant cephalopods.Funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the project seeks to document the diversity, distribution, ecology and biology of squid, cuttlefish, and octopus populations concentrated around seamount regions in…