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The Fisheries Minister, Mr Dominic Presentation, and the Vice-Chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Dr P.K. Abdul Azis, at the inauguration of Sustain Fish 2005, a three-day international symposium, in Kochi on Wednesday. - H. Vibhu

Kochi , March 16

THE State Fisheries Minister, Mr Domnic Presentation, has called upon the scientific community to redesign the fisheries policies so as to face major challenges such as sustainability of fish stock and to combat outbreaks of disease.

The fisheries sector is facing many challenges and the policies should be framed in such a way to protect the inland sector, a very potential sector providing employment to local fishermen, he said while inaugurating the three-day international symposium on Sustain Fish 2005.

The symposium was jointly organised by School of Industrial Fisheries of the Cochin University of Science and Technology and UGC, New Delhi here on Wednesday.

The Government, he said could not ignore social problems related to fishermen community.

Sustainable development of fisheries sector should go hand in hand with welfare of fisher folk. As the fisher folk in the coastal areas face many crisis such as red tides, devastating killer waves of tsunami etc, he urged the scientific world to find out suitable answers to the questions of fisher folk in terms of measures for alleviating their poverty and their social welfare.

The Sustain Fish 2005 proposes to provide an ideal platform for meaningful deliberations on various issues plaguing the fisheries sector and to find out solutions for improving the sustainability of fish production systems.

It will also examine the technological appropriateness of fishing and rational utilisation of fishery resources for providing quality protein to the ever-growing human population at a lower cost.

It will also offer a platform for meaningful deliberation and exchange of ideas on the effectiveness and suitability of various methods employed for the fisheries resource conservation and management, restoration of degraded fish habitats and revival of depleting fish stocks in different parts of the world.

The symposium will also take stock of the recent technologies developed in different laboratories for improving the sustainability of shrimp farming and containment diseases.

The technologies developed by the School in collaboration with Wageningen University in improving the sustainability of Pokkali-based shrimp farming in Kerala will also be evaluated. Besides, policies on introduction of exotics, issues related to WTO and globalisation in fish marketing will also be discussed and appropriate recommendations will be made.

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