Harvest Technologies 

• Designed and Developed several resource-specific crafts including fuel-efficient multipurpose deep-sea green vessel ‘Sagar Harita’ for fishing in offshore waters and solar boat for fishing in reservoirs and backwaters  
• Developed several designs of active and passive gears for open waters; By-catch Reduction Devices (BRDs), Juvenile Fish Excluders and Shrimp Sorting Device (JFE-SSD) and Turtle Excluder Device (TED) for trawls.

 

Post-Harvest Technologies 
Developed value-added products from low valued fish and shellfish:

• Ready to eat products: Fish Pickle, FISHPOUCH, MAPChillFish, FISHCAN, MARICREAM, NUTRIMAYO, Mayonnaise, Smoked Masmin Flakes, Fish Sandwich, FISH KURE, Fish Munch, FIFERS Fish Wafers, Fishmaid, Fish Paneer, Salt fermented Indian mackerel, Osmo-dehydrated Squid Rings, INSTAFISH, DRISH, Dehydrated Fish Fingers, Fish Sausage, NUTRADRINK, SEANOODLES, Fish Pasta, SEAJERKY, SEAYOGURT, Freeze  SEACOOKIES, Khube Chutney Powder, etc. 
• Antioxidants: NUTRIBAR, Herbal Tea using Marine Collagen, Fish Collage Peptide-fortified Soup, Tea Powder using Collagen Peptide, etc. 
• Food supplements:  Squila Protein Powder, Fish Hydrolysate, Edible Fish Powder, Seaweed Dietary Fibre Fortified Fish Sausage, Fish Calcium Enriched Cookies, Tuna Bone Oil, Clam Blood Exudate Powder, etc. 
• Personal hygiene/treatment: Seaweed Hand Sanitizer, NanoZnO-Chitosan Composite Ointment, Chitooligosaccharide-based Antimicrobial Cream, etc. 
• Packaging: Paper-based Functional Food Wraps coated with Chitosan, Melanin-free Ink-based Biopackaging Material, etc.

    

    

Waste to Wealth Products
Some of the important products developed are as follows: 

• FISHGEL (Gelatine from Marine Sources), FERTIFISH® (Foliar Spray from Fish Waste), FERTIFISH® (Fish Ensilage), PURESMART (Succinyl Chitosan Based Hydro-alcohol Hand Sanitizer), Fishlizer (Fertilizer from Fish Waste), Chitooligo (Chitooligosaccharide from Shrimp Shell Waste), Amino Plus (Plant Growth Promoter from Fish Waste), HortiPlus (Plant Growth Enhancer), PlanktonPlus (Plankton Production Promoter), High Value Phycocynanin from Spirulina Biomass, Biofloc Meal Production, and Hydrolysate Products from Fish Waste-hydrolysate

Software/Apps/Database 

• Developed mobile apps such as MatsyaSetu - online learning of fish farming, mKRISHI® - for Potential Fishing Zone information; VannameiShrimp - for technical inputs on shrimp farming; and mJhinga - for shrimp farming in inland saline waters.  
• Developed database such as Nutrifish - nutritional information on food fishes; CarryCap - for aquaculture planning; AqGRISI - information on different aspects of 3138 native fishes; and several others (Fish Karyome, Mitogenome, Fish Barcode Information System, FishMicrosat) 
• Developed, refined and modified Inland Fisheries Catch Assessment Software (CAS 2.0).
   

International Collaborations 
Fisheries Research Institutes has been collaborating with:

• Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
• WorldFish
• Network of  Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
• African Asian Rural Development Organisation (AARDO)
• Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS)
• SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC)
• Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)
• Norwegian University of Science & Technology
• Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)