ICAR-DCFR organized training on Recirculating Aquaculture Systems for Intensive Farming of Fish for Fisheries officers of Jammu and Kashmir

5th – 7th June 2023, Bhimtal

ICAR-Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research, Bhimtal organized a three-day training on Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) for intensive farming of fish during 5-7 June 2023.

RAS is an efficient and sustainable technology that maximizes fish production with minimal resources. ICAR-DCFR has been working on RAS development for four years, establishing successful facilities in high-altitude regions like Ladakh. The training aims to enable scientific implementation of RAS in Jammu-Kashmir and emphasizes its importance at the national level.

In the inaugural session Dr. Debajit Sarma and Dr. Amit Pande, Principal Scientists, ICAR-DCFR briefed about the importance of the technology and strategies to implement the technology at field levels.

During the training programme, participants were made aware of different aspects of RAS like different designs and models of RAS, water quality monitoring, standard operating procedures and risk management in RAS, biosecurity, and treatment of diseases in RAS, feed management, strategies to improve flesh quality, utilisation of RAS effluent as nutrients for agriculture and aquaponics, bio-planning, and techno-commercial feasibility of RAS along with practical exercises.

The training was attended by fisheries officers from Jammu-Kashmir and an entrepreneur from Telangana.

(Source: ICAR-Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research, Bhimtal)