The Central Marine Fishing Institute (CMFRI) based in Kochi will be the Nodal Agency to implement the Fifth National Census of Marine Fishing (MFC 2025) that will take place in November-December of this year.
This massive data compilation will cover 1.20 million homes in the coastal states and the territories of the Union (UT) and document its socioeconomic conditions, separated from the mapping fishermen that covers the entire coast. The selected enumerators of the local fishing community will reach all Marine Fisher’s homes for a 45 -day data collection exercise, according to a launch on Saturday.
“The census will provide vital information to shape policies on marine fishing, well -being and infrastructure development schemes, directly impacting millions that depend on Livesi’s marine bells,” said Grinson George, director of CMFC 2025.
In Territories of the Union
The fishing census is financed and coordinated by the Department of Fishing of the Union of the Ministry of Fisheries, breeding of animals and dairy, under the Pradhan Mantri Matssya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY). The census in Continental India, in nine coastal states, will be made by the CMFRI, while the Fishery of India (FSI) survey has been intomposed with the collection of data from the territories of the Union, including the islands.
The census will collect demographic and livelihood data from the fishing communities, and also infrastructure details such as fishing vessels, fishing gears, ports, fish landing centers, processing units and cold storage facilities.
A high -level meeting chaired by Neetu Kumari Prasad, Joint Secretary of the Fisheries Department, reviewed the progress, the previous requirements and the anticipated timeline of the census. The importance of cooperation and collaboration between state governments and implementing agencies to guarantee the success of the next census was emphasized. The fishing departments of several states offered their full support to the exercise, even for the completion of the village list, sharing labor and resources.
Digital tools
Mrs. Prasad said the census will see a paradigm shift through the adoption of modern digital tools, including applications based on mobile devices, geo-detected and data validation in real time. He added that the census was crucial to improve the governance of evidence -based fishing, livelihood planning and sustainable management of marine resources in India.
J. Jayasankar, Head of the Division of Resource Evaluation FIS Nocos, Economy and Extension (FREED) and the leader of the Census Project, tested an update on the preparatory activities already initiated and the detailed timeline of the early activities.
Personalized schedules for the data collection and deployment strategy, which involve local enumerators, supervised by the regional, state and district level coordinators received the information about the meeting at the meeting. Officials of the Ministry of Fisheries, including K. Mohammed Koya, Fishing Development Commissioner; Sanjay Pandey, attached commissioner; And Manish Bindal, joint director, also spoke. The meeting attended senior officials of the Ministry, State and UT, the FSI and CMFRI fishing departments.
Published – April 12, 2025 07:50 PM IST
