CIFRI Awards
The middle stretch of river Ganga viz. from Prayagraj to Farakka provides an income of Rs.9000.00 per month per fisherman. However, this stretch of the river witnessed a gradual decline in many indegenious fish species including Indian major and minor carps and particularly zeros catch of Hilsa. Realizing the importance towards conservation and restoration of these fish species, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore today ranched more than three lakh twenty thousand fish fingerlings of Rohu Labeo rohita, Catla Catla catla, Mrigala Cirrhinus mrigala, and Calbasu L. calbasu at Sahebganj, Jharkhand and Farakka, West Bengal in river Ganga under the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) programme. On this occasion, as special guests Shri DSGSS Babji, Executive Director, NTPC, Farakka, Shri R.K.Singh, Superitdent Engineer, Farakka Barrage Authority and Shri Sanjeev Kumar, Asst. Director, IWAI were present along with staffs of ICAR-CIFRI under the leadership of Dr. B.K.Das, Director.
In addition, Live Hilsa average size of 350g were tagged and ranched to understand the migratory path in the middle stretch of the river Ganga from Prayagraj to Farakka. During 2019-20, more than 3000 adult hilsa were ranched at upstream of Farakka barrage and interestingly 2 tagged live hilsa were caught at Balia, Uttar Pradesh. This clearly indicates that Hilsa has reestablished its lost migratory path in river Ganga. These activities were performed with following proper measures under Covid19 pandemic situation for reestablishing the indigenous fish population as well as improving the livelihood of the fishermen. These activities have been broad casted well by different press and media.
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