Kochi, April 30 (IANS) India’s marine fisheries sector posted a steady recovery in 2025, with total landings rising three per cent year-on-year to 35.7 lakh tonnes, according to the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI).The data signals a stabilising resource base alongside improving market realisations, offering cautious optimism for the blue economy, it said.State-wise dynamics saw Tamil Nadu emerge as the top contributor with 6.85 lakh tonnes, displacing Gujarat, where output fe…
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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…