CMFRI Annual Report for 1971

Abstract

The main purpose of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute is to wnduct both short-term investigations for sohiag specific probkms and long-term researches for giving a proper appraisal of the living marine resources and thair judicious exploitation. Marine fisheries are lergety capture fisbaries. These aresubjected to ffuctuatiom aa a result of such irrfluences of the sea, which are not easy to predict. The vaalaeas of the sea and #he inter-play of known and unknawn factors which tbs sea provides, and our inability to control tbe influence or to increase the production by artificial means, makc our capacity to haraw tho sea at present, severely limited.