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A nationwide inaugural to papers the presumption of India’s marine sportfishing assemblage volition beryllium officially launched connected Friday (October 31, 2025), marking the opening of household enumeration nether the 5th Marine Fisheries Census (MFC-2025), according to a communication.
Union Minister of State for Fisheries George Kurian volition motorboat the inaugural and a nationalist store astatine a relation to beryllium held astatine ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) present astatine 10 a.m. connected Friday.
MFC-2025 volition screen much than 1.2 cardinal fisher households crossed India’s coastal States and Union Territories, providing important information for sustainable fisheries absorption and argumentation planning. It is coordinated by the Department of Fisheries (DoF) of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying nether the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) with CMFRI arsenic the nodal bureau and Fishery Survey of India (FSI) arsenic the operational partner, it said.
Enumerators selected from the section sportfishing assemblage volition scope each marine fisherman household for a 45-day information postulation exercise. The census, which is held each 5 years, collects elaborate accusation connected marine fishers, their households, sportfishing crafts and gears. Unlike erstwhile editions, MFC-2025 is the first-ever afloat integer and geo-referenced marine fisheries census, according to the release.
