CENTRAL INLAND FISHERIES RESEARCH STATION, CALCUTTA—ITS ORIGIN, ORGANISATION AND FUNCTIONS

Abstract

WITH the growing food scarcity in the country both during and after World
War IT, fish-farming assumed importance and urgency. There was immediate
need for harnessing all cultivable waters in the country for food production.
But as the fundamentals of practical fish-farming as a science and
an industry were inadequately known in the country, there was urgent need
for organising fishery research on an all-India basis. The Ministry of
Agriculture of the Government of India therefore sanctioned an interim
scheme, which later covered a five-year period, for research on inland fishery
problems.