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| Dir fisheries tours to Ramban | | | 
Early Times Report
Ramban, Mar 19: The Director Fisheries, J&K, Mohammad Farooq Dar, JKAS conducted an extensive tour of District Ramban on to monitor the progress of various developmental schemes being implemented in the Fisheries sector. The Departmental Trout rearing units established at Karol, Ramban and Kharkote, Banihal were inspected during the tour. The fish sale from Trout Fish Farm Kharkote, Banihal was also thrown open to sale for public by Director Fisheries. It was given out that districts falling in Chenab valley viz. Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar etc have abundance of streams and hilly torrents which are blessed with tremendous potential for development of Cold water fisheries. The Director emphasised that district Ramban has vast potential for exploitation of Cold Water fisheries and fish production and productivity can be enhanced further by intervention of new technology viz RAS, etc and by tapping potential water resources for fish culture. The Director impressed that the fish farming with new technology in the hilly and remote areas of the districts of Chenab valley shall help in the economic upliftment of the local people, besides supplementing quality protein in their diet. The Director instructed the District Officer to identify potential areas in the districts to prioritise setting up of more Trout Rearing units in private sector under cluster based approach and facilitate organised marketing channels for benefit of the farming community to sell their produce for better returns. The concerned District Officer was directed to utilise different media channels to advertise about PMMSY and various beneficiary oriented schemes of fisheries sector proposed under Holistic Development of Agriculture and allied sector among the general masses.
During the tour, the Director also visited Trout Fish Farm Kokernag to inspect the progress of the ongoing Trout breeding and seed production activity being under taken in the farm. The Director inspected various components of the farm viz. European Raceways, American Raceways; Trout feed mill, Ova House etc and inspected the progress of the construction work of Anglers lodge in the farm. While reviewing the status of Trout seed production and distribution, the Director Fisheries was appraised that 8.2 lakh fingerlings were supplied to private Trout growers besides 2.1 lakh advanced fingerlings were provided to different Departmental Trout rearing units for rearing to table size from the farm. About 3.2 lakh Trout Fingerlings were supplied to different districts for stocking in the feasible natural water bodies/streams for conservation of Trout fisheries. The farm has also supplied 1.7 lakh Eyed ova of Rainbow Trout to Department of Fisheries, Sikkim and Tamil Nadu. To cater to the demand of Trout fish about 35 tonnes of fish has been sold during the current financial year. The Director expressed satisfaction over the seed production and its distribution among the fishers and advised to further enhance the quality seed production of Rainbow Trout for benefit of private fish farmers and entrepreneurs. The Director also visited the Inservice Fisheries Training Centre, Kokernag and interacted with the trainees. The Directed emphasized that the skills and knowledge attained during inservice training are important to bring positive attitudinal change among the staff and the technically sound and trained manpower have ability to command and deliver effectively at the field level. The Director was accompanied by Joint Director Fisheries (South), Kashmir, Chief Project Officer, Trout Fish Farm , Kokernag, Principal, Inservice Training Centre, Kokernag, Assistant Director Fisheries, Ramban and other senior officers of the department. |
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