CIFRI Awards
Vadodara Research Station of ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI) on 13.10.2022 demonstrated ‘CIFRI HDPE Pen Technology’ at Dev Dam, Panchmahal to the tribal fishers of ‘The Dev Dam Asargrast Vikas Matsya Uchher Sahakari Mandali Ltd’, Bhamariya Village. About 30,000 fish seeds of catla and rohu were released in the 0.1 Ha CIFRI HDPE Pen for production of stockable size fish fingerlings for Dev Dam.
Availability of stockable size fish fingerlings is one of the bottlenecks in increasing fish production from reservoirs in India. ‘CIFRI HDPE Pen’ is a technology developed by ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute to provide opportunity to the fishermen to raise the stockable size fish fingerlings at reservoir site by enclosing part of the reservoir. This technology has been successfully used in states of Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, Uttar Pradesh etc., in wetlands and reservoirs. In view of increasing fish production from reservoirs of Gujarat, Vadodara Research Station of ICAR-CIFRI is demonstrating this technology in the state under the Schedule Tribe Component (STC) of Central Government. 
The programme was attended by Dr S. P. Kamble, Scientist In-Charge, Lohith Kumar K, Scientist, Jayesh K Solanki, Technical Officer, C. D. Parmar, AAO, J. C. Solanki, SSS of Vadodara Research Station and Shri Sana Bhai Rajpur, Chairman along with the other members of the Mandali. During the programme tribal fishers of the mandali were trained on stocking of fish seed, feeding and other management aspects of the CIFRI HDPE Pen. 
