Winter School on “Advances in Management of Inland Open-water Ecosystem Health” concludes at ICAR-CIFRI

10^th February, 2020, Barrackpore, Kolkata

The ICAR-sponsored Winter School on “Advances in Management of Inland Open-water Ecosystem Health” organized at the ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata from 21^st January to 10^th February, 2020 concluded today.

The Chief Guest of the valedictory ceremony, Dr. B.C. Mal, Vice-Chancellor, JIS University, Kolkata emphasized that at present, the fish production of the country is 13 Million Metric Tons and in his budget speech, the Finance Minister raised the target of 20 Million Metric Tons fish production by 2023-24. He told the participants to use the new technologies learned in the winter school in capacity building of farmers and students.

Dr. Mal also felicitated participants with the certificates.

Dr. B.K. Das, Director, ICAR-CIFRI stressed on the need of more collaboration between the ICAR Institutes and Universities for advance research in inland fisheries. He urged the participants for using the technology at their respective Institutions. He hoped that the new technology applications like GIS and remote sensing, proteomics, etc., will help the participants in the long run.

During the winter school, the participants were trained through laboratory demonstration and hands-on-training on modern analytical tools like 1-and 2-D electrophoresis, 1-and 2-D immunoblotting, PCR and associated techniques, microbial techniques, etc.

(Source: ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata)