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Transport Minister C.P. John connected Monday underscored the value of documenting the accepted cognition of fishers. Mr. John was speaking aft launching a Community Marine Biodiversity Online Register (CMBOR) connected the marine ecosystems disconnected the Thiruvananthapuram seashore arsenic portion of the World Oceans Day celebrations connected Monday (June 8).
Mr. John suggested that the accepted cognition beryllium documented and preserved successful the signifier of audio files. The CMBOR has been developed by Friends of Marine Life (FML), a Thiruvananthapuram-based organisation. The Minister said that the State authorities was unfastened to suggestions from scientists regarding changes needed successful the State’s policies successful matters concerning the seashore and the sea.
A. Biju Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) presided. He said that the CMBOR developed by FML is simply a large measurement for the people’s subject question and the conception of water literacy. “Perhaps, this is the first-of-its-kind registry successful India that has been developed with the progressive information of fishers,” Dr. Biju Kumar said. Whether oregon not the technological sanction of an organism is available, the important origin successful specified documentations should beryllium that the beingness of an organism is noted, helium said. On people’s biodiversity registers astatine the section assemblage level, helium opined that the bureaucratic quality of committees that usually caput specified projects thin to hinder the desired nationalist involvement.
The CMBOR (cmbor.org) provides accusation connected a wealthiness of marine species, including galore that person yet to beryllium scientifically identified, said FML coordinator Robert Panipilla. Apart from photographs, the registry has 55 habitat-related underwater videos and implicit 200 species-related videos.
The CMBOR task was supported by the Kerala University’s Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, South Indian Federation of Fishermen’s Societies, Aazhi Archives and Scuba Cochin. John Kurien, erstwhile professor, Centre oregon Development Studies; societal idiosyncratic Nalini Nayak, Fr. James Culas, SIFFS president John Kennady, SCUBA Cochin managing manager Justin Jose were present.
