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DEVELOPMENTAL DEPARTMENTS
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the FISHERIES DEPARTMENT.
FISHERIES.
Organisation.
A SUPERINTENDENT OF FISHERIES WAS APPOINTED WITH HEAD- QUARTERS AT KOLHAPUR with the opening of a sub-office there in 1951. This officer is entrusted with the supervision of fisheries in North Satara, South Satara and Sholapur districts also and he works directly under the Director of Fisheries, Maharashtra State, Bombay. One Assistant Superintendent, a clerk-cum-typist and a peon are attached to his office. For implementation of a scheme to undertake deep tank fishing operations with special type of nets in the Radhanagari lake additional staff consisting of one Assistant Superintendent and his subordinates is stationed at Radhanagari and works directly under the supervision of the Superintendent of Fisheries, Kolhapur.
The duties of the Superintendent of Fisheries are as under:-
(i) To lease out fishing rights of portions of the rivers, tanks and ponds in the district.
(ii) Survey of new sheets of water to assess their suitability for pisciculture.
(iii) Stocking of tanks and ponds with suitable varieties of fish every year.
(iv) Collection of local fry and its nurture in nursery tanks.
(v) Supervision of the tanks.
(vi) Formation and supervision of the fisheries co-operative societies and to devise ways and means to improve the socio-economic condition of fishermen.
(vii) To investigate applications from fishermen for loan from Government.
(viii) To watch and effect loan recoveries and credit the money to treasury.
(ix) To encourage fishermen to take advantage of the different schemes of the department.
(x) To collect statistics of fish and other data pertaining to fisheries and fishermen of the district.
(xi) To serve as member and to attend the meeting of the District Development Boards and their respective subcommittees.
(xii) To supervise deep tank fishing operations.
(xiii) To supervise the work of development of fisheries in Kolhapur, Sholapur, North and South Satara districts.
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